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June 21, 2005

Google's interpretation of nofollow tag

[Search engine optimization and Online marketing] the best way to think of nofollow is "I don't want to (or can't) vouch for this link." That could be because it's a comment or referrer section, or it could just be that you don't want to endorse the page that you're linking to.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

http://davebgimp.com [davebgimp.com] Favorite WordPress plugins so far.: them to profiles from known spambots. Google URL Redirector: This plugin strips URLs from your comments and uses the Google “nofollow” redirector to prevent comment spammers from taking advantage of your pagerank.

[Number One In Your Niche] Blog Linking and the Comment Spam Fix: One of my subscribers wrote in asking: “I just read an article, that Google is going to begin punishing websites, that use blogs for promotion of websites by linking. It said, there would be a tag created to top spiders from following certain links.

http://www.ioerror.us [IO ERROR] Nofollow revisited: It’s been about four months now since Google introduced nofollow to the web. Since then it’s been...

[Logomacy] Nofollow: It’s diabolical laughter, but of a particular kind, generally indicating that the laugher is perverse or wicked. An Iago might laugh that way (or the mysterious priest Xellos, from Slayers) A mad scientist or other full-bore maniac would be more likely, I think, to use a mwa-ha-ha kind of laugh (spelled ba-ha-ha-ha, I would guess) while standing arms akimbo, but that may be the influence of English theatrical villain conventions.

Google.comhttp://www.google.com [Google.com] Google Blog - Live: Preventing comment spam: Q: Will Google recognize the 'nofollow' keyword when it's part of a space separated list? According to the HTML spec, the value of the 'rel' attribute is a space separated list of link types.

Secrets2moteurs.comhttp://www.secrets2moteurs.com [Secrets2moteurs.com] Preventing comment spam, vu sur Google Blog (anglais) [Secrets 2 ...: Email commentspam at google.com. As we spot more areas where spammers still abuse the Web, we'll contact the appropriate people in order to keep fighting comment spam.

http://labnol.blogspot.com [Labnol.blogspot.com] Digital Inspiration: This blog supports rel="nofollow" attribute ...: From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks ... from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists. ...

Blog.outer-court.comhttp://blog.outer-court.com [Blog.outer-court.com] Rel Nofollow, Again: at least that’s what insiders* suggest, referring to information Google employees leaked. According to these sources, Google today will announce they support a new attribute for links to combat comment spam.

http://underscorebleach.net [Underscorebleach.net] Proposal on referrer spam: (About a year ago, juju.org tackled the referral spamming problem with some nice directions and found that the spam was coming from a single IP, but I believe things have gotten more complex since then.) I trawled through the logfile for 13 January 2005 for eight random referrer spams and found eight different IPs.

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Posted at June 21, 2005 08:53 AM

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