Comments on: Google supports anti-spam links

By: WebMaster View

WebMaster View — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:28:21 +0000

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

Chuck Lawson — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:01:37 +0000

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

Tim — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:48:49 +0000

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. :)