_____/ On Sat 03 Sep 2005 08:04:26 BST, [Amit Gupta] wrote : \_____
Firas D. <fd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Also I think the point of the disdain for nofollow is that the
spammers
| really don't care what the search engines are following or not
| following, they're gonna keep spewing their stuff via bots anyway
yeah, that's right. Even if you don't link directly to any URI's in
comments & link them via a redirector script, the spammers hardly care,
I bet they don't even know, they just have a list of
websites/blogs/forums which they feed into their bots & start spamming
them. :(
Two of my blogs still respect the "no nofollow" mantra. Until not long ago I
came to witness spam coming to an /almost complete halt/. So, it was fair to
conclude that spammers did not 'snatch' any opportunities. It is hard to come
up with a search engine criterion for 'blog that honours all links' unless the
blog explicitly states something to that effect in its body.
More recently, spam bounced up again to a lump of 50-100 a day. It does not
appear as if spammers have time (READ: will bother) to check if rel="nofollow"
is embedded. As a matter of fact, you can get rel="nofollow" links highlighted
in red if you install the SearchStatus extension for Firefox, which is
worrying
when you think of spammers. Before I got it installed (version 1.9 or
later), I
had to highlight text and "View Source Selection", which is hard if you
inspect
an entire page that is filled with links.
has anybody noticed the following:
http://del.icio.us/robots.txt
I was a little curious this morning, that's all...
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com
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