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January 19, 2005
Woohoo! Google is Cracking Down on Spam Commenters!
Finally! Google is no longer going to credit links from comment spam...which will hopefully stop comment spam in its tracks. You can bet I'll be implementing this baby soon:
Movable Type 'nofollow' plugin
01.18.2005
Today we are pleased to announce our full support for the rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks introduced to address the main cause of weblog spam: the payoff of higher placement in search engine results.
This initiative, with announced support from Google, Yahoo, MSN (and surely more to come), will direct search engines to ignore links with this attribute set for the purposes of spidering or increasing search engine relevance or ranking.
For current users of Movable Type, this support is implemented as a simple plugin (zip [4K], tar/gzip [3K]-- tested on MT 3.x and MT 2.661). For most users enabling "nofollow" support involves placing a single file in your plugins directory. All links submitted by external users in comments and TrackBacks will then be modifed to add the rel="nofollow" attribute.
If you're interested in specific details of its operation and the effect it has on Movable Type template tags, see our overview entitled "Introduction to nofollow" on the Professional Network weblog. For an overview of our support across all Six Apart platforms, please see Ben's "Support for nofollow" post on Six Log.
And this great link that points out that Yahoo and other search engines will also stop recognizing comment spam: Google Takes On Comment Spammers
Posted by crystallyn at January 19, 2005 06:40 AM
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