[drupal-devel] rel=nofollow
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. -- ______________________________ toddgrimason*todd-AT-slack.net
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>
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. Steven - this looks like a job for filter - preg_replace on user submitted links. This could also help drupal.org from being pounded so hard by search engine spiders - restricting them to only follow internal non-comment links. +1 for implementation of this. andre
participants (3)
-
Andre Molnar -
gordon＠heydon.com.au -
Todd Grimason