Comments on: Google supports anti-spam links http://www.figby.com/archives/2005/01/18/google-supports-anti-spam-links/ A weblog by Michael Moncur Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:39:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: WebMaster View http://www.figby.com/archives/2005/01/18/google-supports-anti-spam-links/#comment-872 WebMaster View Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:28:21 +0000 /?p=3349#comment-872 <p><strong>nofollow</strong> Google, MSN and Yahoo! announced their support for rel=nofollow attribute to hyperlinks. They will ignore links with this attribute to prevent comment spam. Movable Type released a plugin for adding this attribute to all links in comments and trackbacks.</p> nofollow
Google, MSN and Yahoo! announced their support for rel=nofollow attribute to hyperlinks. They will ignore links with this attribute to prevent comment spam. Movable Type released a plugin for adding this attribute to all links in comments and trackbacks.

]]> By: Chuck Lawson http://www.figby.com/archives/2005/01/18/google-supports-anti-spam-links/#comment-871 Chuck Lawson Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:01:37 +0000 /?p=3349#comment-871 <p>At least it'll be easy to catch at link exchanges, since it's right in the source code (no wondering what htaccess and robot rules are set, etc). In fact, that might make a dandy Firefox plugin ("Highlight nofollow links").</p> <p>On the other hand, I wonder if we'll see this used by sites to "funnel" and direct pagerank to specific places and links...</p> At least it’ll be easy to catch at link exchanges, since it’s right in the source code (no wondering what htaccess and robot rules are set, etc). In fact, that might make a dandy Firefox plugin (”Highlight nofollow links”).

On the other hand, I wonder if we’ll see this used by sites to “funnel” and direct pagerank to specific places and links…

]]> By: Tim http://www.figby.com/archives/2005/01/18/google-supports-anti-spam-links/#comment-870 Tim Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:48:49 +0000 /?p=3349#comment-870 <p>Yes, this will be exploited by those doing link exchanges... It will make policing sites that you exchanged links with, even more time consuming. But, on the other-hand, i hate comment spam with a passion. :)</p> Yes, this will be exploited by those doing link exchanges… It will make policing sites that you exchanged links with, even more time consuming. But, on the other-hand, i hate comment spam with a passion. :)

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