Thank You Jesus - Google Tackles Comment Spam

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”

  1. Gravatar Icon 1 grandpa 

    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. Gravatar Icon 2 ticklebug 

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

    Have a good day.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Shanti 

    ticklebug - okay - I’ll send ‘em your way!

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Nathan Slaughter 

    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”!
    213.176.155.124
    201.248.102.223
    206.183.210.253
    193.191.141.3
    66.220.7.130
    158.42.249.231
    207.234.129.95
    24.0.108.103
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    209.112.191.14
    62.206.89.27
    221.116.211.172
    62.160.18.197
    194.2.146.199


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