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Google Blog rel=nofollow
by Decius at 10:21 pm EST, Jan 19, 2005 |
] 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. I wonder if we should implement this in memestreams such that if you don't have a large audience this tag appears in your links. Thoughts? |
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RE: Google Blog rel=nofollow
by Rattle at 2:59 am EST, Jan 20, 2005 |
Decius wrote:
] I wonder if we should implement this in memestreams such that
] if you don't have a large audience this tag appears in your
] links. Thoughts? It should be easy to have the system add tags to the hyperlinks until you have at least a few recommends. |
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Google Blog
by dmv at 1:22 am EST, Jan 19, 2005 |
] 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. Right on. I am trying to think of downsides; certainly it will decrease the visibility of good faith link recommendations. It also means it may be harder to trackback to user identities from where they post with personal url. But these don't seem significant enough relative to comment/guestbook spamming. |
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