FW: Google takes on comment spam

All I am saying is that if I on a yahoogroup say "look at house of fusion this really great site I know" any resulting clicks will not count toward your page rank. Page rank will be based more on links from web sites. Though hopefully people will be impressed and return on their own.... so you will still benefit from the worrd of mouth, just not in terms of google standing. No? Dana Ps -- I do think this is a good thing at the end of the day mind you -- I am just pondering what it means. > Content is still content, visits are still visits and the end result will > still be more traffic. And this will not be adopted by all. > > > 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 > > > > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:25:53 -0500, Michael Dinowitz > > <mdinowit@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >