{"id":7681,"date":"2005-01-18T17:48:53","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T00:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/18\/it-doesnt-work-any-more-do-you-finally-get-it.html"},"modified":"2005-01-18T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T00:48:53","slug":"it_doesnt_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/it_doesnt_work.html","title":{"rendered":"IT DOESN’T WORK ANY MORE! DO YOU FINALLY GET IT!?<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

(The above is a message to comment spammers.)<\/p>\n

Comment spammers do their evil and fœtid thing in order garner high Google pageranks for their sites.<\/p>\n

MT long ago set up the URL field in comments to automatically be set up as redirects (so that they couldn’t be used for pagerank purposes), but comment spammers have long turned to posting their nasssssty links inside of the comments themselves.<\/p>\n

So 6A has created<\/a> the “nofollow” plugin<\/a>. Google, MSN Search, and Yahoo have agreed that their search bots\/spiders will no longer record links with with the rel=”nofollow”<\/em> attribute. The plug-in, in turn (as you have probably figured out) inserts that particular tag into all links in comments.<\/p>\n

The plug-in has been tested in MT 3.x and 2.661.<\/p>\n

TypePad users will have this automatically happen. LiveJournal plans to implement this for folks that aren’t “friends” of the poster. <\/p>\n

Very good. I’m not a fan of ad hoc <\/em>extensions of standard syntax, but this seems a relatively harmless and acceptable cooperative action to — well, if not stop <\/em>comment spammers, at least discourage <\/em>them. After all, once it’s in place, comment spam (to garner pagerank) is useless. <\/em><\/p>\n

IT DOESN’T WORK ANY MORE, ASSHOLES. GO AWAY. NOW. JUST. GO. AWAY.<\/p>\n

I heartily recommend folks adopt it. I’m going to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(The above is a message to comment spammers.) Comment spammers do their evil and fœtid thing in order garner high Google pageranks for their sites. MT long ago set up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7678,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/more_on_the_goo.html","url_meta":{"origin":7681,"position":0},"title":"More on the Google nofollow tag","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jan-05 7:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"A bit of a backlash this morning on the announcement of the new rel=\"nofollow\" tag that Google et al. are going to be implementing. 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