Jarrod Trainque

19Jan

Google makes comment spam meaningless

Posted 5 years, 7 months ago - 2 comments

Google, in cooperation with many blogging tools, have come up with a possible solution for comment spam.

If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, we don’t like it either, and we’ve been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it’s just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.

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2 Comments

  1. Comment by Jarrod — January 23, 2005 @ 6:15 pm

    Update: this site now automatically embeds the rel='nofollow' in comments. See for yourself:

    http://www.trainque.com

  2. Comment by Test — March 30, 2007 @ 5:38 am

    Hi all!

    Bye

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