Google Encourages NoFollow
Preventing Comment Spam
If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, which Google don’t like, and they have been testing a new tag that blocks it.
NoFollow Attribute
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it’s just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
Google hopes that the web software community will quickly adopt this attribute and they’re pleased that a number of blog software makers have already done it.
NoFollow Example Link
Modified link should look like following:
Visit my <a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.
