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Thank You Jesus - Google Tackles Comment Spam

Written by Shanti A. Braford January 18th, 2005in Random Musings.

It’s about freaking time.

From the Google Blog:

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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4 Responses to “Thank You Jesus - Google Tackles Comment Spam”

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1 grandpa on Jan 20th, 2005 at 4:47 am

hello shanti. i found your blog by accident . at first i read this, about
Hi, I’m Shanti Braford .
This is my new link spidering & meta-link aggregation engine.
Follow the instructions to the left and you’ll see who’s linking to you in no time!
We currently support the following information sources:
Blogosphere Links

Step 1. Highlight the linking code below and copy it (CTRL-C on most systems) into your clipboard.
Step 2. Paste the linking code somewhere into your blog/site template. Rebuild your template if necessary.
Step 3. Load your blog into your browser and click through on your newly added WhoLinksToMe.com link. i get steps 1 and 2 but how do you load your blog in to you browser. i use a browser called crazy.
2 ticklebug on Jan 22nd, 2005 at 2:11 am

Hey, send the spammers in my direction. I get lonely sometimes. Just teasing. I think.

Have a good day.
3 Shanti on Jan 23rd, 2005 at 10:31 pm

ticklebug - okay - I’ll send ‘em your way!
4 Nathan Slaughter on Jan 24th, 2005 at 8:43 pm

Why wait for spammers to come to you? If you’re lonely, you have to be a friend to make a friend. Sometime their English is terrible, but they’re looking for friends like you, ticklebug. Try this:
http://www.lannygordon.com Ha, rel=”nofollow”!
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