Comments on: Google: “You are either with us, or with the spammers” http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2005/01/22/google-you-are-either-with-us-or-with-the-spammers/ News, plugins and themes for blogging applications Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:44:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2005/01/22/google-you-are-either-with-us-or-with-the-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-1583 John Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:12:30 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2005/01/22/google-you-are-either-with-us-or-with-the-spammers/#comment-1583 I don't think there's any doubt that the "nofollow" attribute was designed to keep search results and PageRank relevant. As a side benefit it will also help bloggers who don't know how to fight comment spam any other way. Another side benefit to bloggers is that they can use the tag selectively to keep certain links they use from getting "Google Juice". I don’t think there’s any doubt that the “nofollow” attribute was designed to keep search results and PageRank relevant. As a side benefit it will also help bloggers who don’t know how to fight comment spam any other way. Another side benefit to bloggers is that they can use the tag selectively to keep certain links they use from getting “Google Juice”.

]]> By: Chuck Lawson http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2005/01/22/google-you-are-either-with-us-or-with-the-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 Chuck Lawson Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:52:37 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2005/01/22/google-you-are-either-with-us-or-with-the-spammers/#comment-1581 Interesting take.. My own theory is that Google got a mechanism to try to keep PageRank (and their results) relevant for another year or two, and spun it as "helping out the bloggers", rather then saving their own existence... Comment spam is wildly swaying Google results in several different categories. Like a lot of folks, I don't think nofollow is going to reduce comment spam much (it may even increase it a bit to offset the loss.) On the other hand, if Google can generate enough buzz to get nofollow made the default, particularly on some of the services full of abandoned blogs (where comment spam piles up like snowdrifts), then it won't be affecting them nearly as much, even though we'll still be fighting the spammers (who will come for clickthrus even if they don't get pagerank). Interesting take.. My own theory is that Google got a mechanism to try to keep PageRank (and their results) relevant for another year or two, and spun it as “helping out the bloggers”, rather then saving their own existence…

Comment spam is wildly swaying Google results in several different categories.

Like a lot of folks, I don’t think nofollow is going to reduce comment spam much (it may even increase it a bit to offset the loss.)

On the other hand, if Google can generate enough buzz to get nofollow made the default, particularly on some of the services full of abandoned blogs (where comment spam piles up like snowdrifts), then it won’t be affecting them nearly as much, even though we’ll still be fighting the spammers (who will come for clickthrus even if they don’t get pagerank).

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