On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:08:06 -0500, Andre Molnar <mcsparkerton@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Todd Grimason wrote:
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere here yet: http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html In short, adding an attribute to an anchor tag: rel="nofollow" will cause participating search engines to not follow/count the link (Google, MSN, and Yahoo! so far). So anywhere there's a link in user-submitted content you'd add this.
Won't stop the spammers - but at least their efforts will be wasted.
I'm not sure that there is much point to this...spam.module is MUCH more effective at making this not a problem. And what if you WANT user submitted content to count towards pagerank? Like, say, people in forums constantly pointing to the same RTFM post. Do spammers spam to raise page rank? Or do spammers spam so that other people see/click on their links? *grumble, grumble, grumble* -- Boris Mann http://www.bryght.com