blogs.webpronews.com — "I would love to acknowledge your existence, but you might be a spammer. Since you might be a spammer, I better not link to you. Google doesn’t like spammers and… you know, you’re either with Google or you’re against them. So, I can’t really, you know, risk it."
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op12Jul 1, 2007
Nofollow won't neccessarily prevent that from continuing. Your better option is to try these:<a class="user" href="http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html">http://nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html</a><a class="user" href="http://projecthoneypot.org/">http://projecthoneypot.org/</a>I have gotten no spam comments since implementing just the hidden field described in the first link.
spyrochaeteJul 1, 2007
nofollow is a meta tag or linking option that you can optionally put in a web page's HTML code. This tag instructs search engines not to follow links on a web page.Often spammers will leave bogus comments on people's blogs and wikis with links to their own for-profit sites. Google determines how "relevant" a web site is in part by the number of other sites that link to it. Sites like Wikipedia and Digg already fare well on Google, so to have such a site link to your own web page is high praise in the eyes of search engines. Thus, your site is deemed more relevant.So to discourage spammers from leaving links on your website you would enable the nofollow tag to make sure they don't get credit with Google for linking to their site from yours.
alrahmanJul 1, 2007
bulls**t. Its my blog and I can do what I like with it. Dont like it? Dont visit. Simple
weebitJul 1, 2007
spammers had at one time about taken over the blogger comment section on several websites I had frequented a few years ago. Many gave up trying to keep them off of their website blogs. Keeping up with the deletion of their spam was a tedious job, and required vigilance every day of the week. When the nofollow came along it enabled the blogger to take control again. It is still not fool proof, but it lesson the ones trying to use you as a means to bring up popularity with their spam sites. But it also took away from the very good sites that you was blogging in the first place. I noticed it takes longer to get a good rank. I am sure the is the backlash caused from the nofollow. I had checked for the nofollow tag, and the norm is 3 or four tags included in each page of the blog. In the beginning, their was just one tag included in the meta tag of the comments section. But you would be surprised to learn that some blog websites nofollow ALL links on the page now days. Not just comment tags. Perhaps this is the reason as to why some blog sites have a hard time trying to get a good ranking?
geofffoxJul 1, 2007
From a practical standpoint, my blog has gone from a Google PR5 to PR4. I assume the reason is there are now fewer links to me, because my comments are 'nofollow'ed. When I comment, I'm usually speaking where I have some expertise. It seems to be within the spirit of Google's rankings to elevate my site for that reason.However, I am being penalized for the sins of others... something posters on this site (and many others) have railed against for years.My incoming Google traffic is down enough that my overall traffic has dropped around 35%. My AdSense revenue has gone from a few dollars a day to under $1. Those incoming hits mostly came to my 'inside pages' where I have older content that matches search queries.Google and site owners are entitled to act as they wish. Personally, I use a variety of methods to eliminate comment spam and remove the ones that get through as soon as they arrive. I limit comments to posts made within the last week. I'd rather not penalize the people who really do have something to say on my site... and their own.
dayyveJul 1, 2007
Thanks for all of your help guys. Very cool, now I understand :)
mancatJul 1, 2007
Good answer.. Got it now.
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piattorneyDec 25, 2009
No follow is just a way to hoard link juice. Spammers could care less about Page Rank. They want traffic. So Digg hoards the link juice and allows their spammy paid for ads to be "do follow". Many SB sites allow us to help them build their sites then turn on the"nofollow" feature. Dont bookmark at no follow sites and let them know you will not send them traffic if they pull that bulls**t on people.
ristom2009Dec 24, 2010
no cool~~ no cool~~