FW: Google takes on comment spam

It probably will cut down on a certain amount of "look at this great link I found" referrals. I realize that the link will still work, but people do also legitimately do this and the site will no longer get credit for these clicks for ranking purposes. I've seen it quite a bit on the home school/parenting yahoogroups, and since yahoo is participating.... So I am thinking that viral marketing will still work but will have less effect on page rank (?) Dana > Probably by script which means that the blog software has to be rewritten. > This is really a lot of fun due to the total amount of blog software out > there. Personally, I'd just run a standard spam filter against a post and > 'flag' it as potential or actual spam based on content, links, etc. Simple > to do. > > > While I applaud this, having had to deal with a penis enlargement > > spammer, my question is, well, probably stunningly simple and > > something I should know.... > > > > The "nofollow" will not be put there by the spammers presumably since > > they want the link to be followed... so would it get there by a script > > that the blog software applies to all comments? I guess? > > > > Dana > > > > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:44:57 -0500, Michael Dinowitz > > <mdinowit@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > > Originally posted by Kevin Graeme to the CF-Community list. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with > > > people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by > > > submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount > > > pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it > > > either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, > > > when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those > > > links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search > > > results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was > > > posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from > > > abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer > > > lists. > > > http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html > > > > > > -Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > >