Laptop Batteries
January 20, 2005 by Graham Doel
Filed under Computers
Blog comment spam
January 19, 2005 by Graham Doel
Filed under blog
Blog comment spam is very frustrating. Comments can be posted on any entry automatically. I have been hit by web gambling sites, that throw tons of links into their comments. They do it in order to improve their search engine rating.
I have combated this by moderating all comments (which isn't much bother as I don't get many comments). Google, MSN, and Yahoo have announced that they are offering support for a new tag rel=”nofollow”. Which will decrease the importance of a link in they eyes of the search engine.
Hopefully Wordpress will automatically insert the tag into comments in the future. It is unfortunate that this is only a partial solution because the comments are still in your blog and legitimate links will be affected.
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