Comments on: Google Search: rel=”nofollow”

By: Fighting Weblog Spam with rel="nofollow" (8 Ways to Sunday)

Fighting Weblog Spam with rel="nofollow" (8 Ways to Sunday) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:03:16 +0000

[...] Reaction from around the blogosphere has been skeptical and mixed. My favorite so far is Mark from Weblog Tools Collection, who thinks the whole thing might just be a conspiracy. [...]

By: miss-information.net

miss-information.net — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:40:27 +0000

La fausse bonne nouvelle du “no follow”
J’en ai parlé ce matin, j’ai eu le temps de lire les différents billets de Nanoblog, Blog Herald ici, ici et encore ici, The Peking Duck, etc…) pour me rendre compte que, au fond, tout le monde se félicitait de l’initiative. Ah! Enfin une bonne no…

By: Simon Willisonq

Simon Willisonq — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If that’s their plan it’s not going to work, seeing as one newspaper has already announced support for the new attribute (disclaimer: I used to work there).

By: Chuck Lawson

Chuck Lawson — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I think it’s going to be a long time before this actually reduces any comment spam — after all, there will still be sites out there that don’t use it (the same ones that haven’t had a post in six months); worse, the comment spammers will probably crank up their volume to make up for any loss from it…

By: Jeff Minard

Jeff Minard — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I hate this concept.

I will not use it, and I won’t advocate it. A good deal of the reason for leaving comments is connecting with others. You leave a bit of valuable info, you interact, you contribute, and in return you (I) expect a *real* link back that will help me get better search results, better page rank. It’s a very little thing to do.

I like captchas better than this - and I hate those too.

The client/server side MD5′ing is working flawlessly for me now, and the spam filters (Kitten, bless that soul) are getting really hot. Not to mention intergration with SpamAssassain (which is, well, quite versed in dealing with crappy spam content).

Filtering is the way to go - not spiting in your commenters face.

By: a-giau

a-giau — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Wikipedia has also adopted the attribute value. Basically all external links are nofollow, as are some internal navigational (i.e. non-content) links.