If you’re a blogger, you’ve tasted comment spam. Why do people do it? For link popularity purposes of course or in Google speak, PageRank. Google, Yahoo and MSN and a host of blog hosting services have banded together to launch the “nofollow” link attribute. With the “nofollow” attribute activated for the “public” areas of a blog, search engine bots won’t follow the link, and thus won’t assign link popularity ranking benefits to the link destination. Smart, efficient. A very welcome development.d with the strong anti-spam plugins provided by the blogging community should make a dent. It’s good to see that everyone is on the same page.
The Big 3
Google - Preventing Comment Spam
Yahoo - Defense Against Comment Spam
MSN - Working Together Against Blog Spam
The Blog Fathers
Brad Fitzpatrick - LiveJournal
Dave Winer - Scripting News
Anil Dash - Six Apart
Steve Jenson - Blogger
Matt Mullenweg - WordPress
Stewart Butterfield - Flickr
Anthony Batt - Buzznet
David Czarnecki - blojsom
Rael Dornfest - Blosxom
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