19 Jan
2005
19 Jan
'05
4:59 a.m.
Hello, * Todd Grimason (todd@slack.net) 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.
Basically a filter needs to be written, so that that on content such as comments and maybe nodes so that the rel="nofollow" gets added. I don't thinks this would be too hard, and I don't know maybe it should be in standard? -- Gordon Heydon <gordon@heydon.com.au>