Lots of news to get caught up on. This will be the first of a couple posts today.
The following was taken from Google Blog:
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, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it. 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.
We hope the web software community will quickly adopt this attribute and we're pleased that a number of blog software makers have already signed on:
It goes on to list several major players in the blog market that are going to support this tag attribute. People such as:
I was reading all this last night and thought it was a good idea but
something I wouldn’t really have to bother with. Then I check my blog
and some nutwut added 3 comments to every post advertising his poker
website. Figures. Please be sure to set your own blogs up to use this
on at least the annonomous posters. I’ll be making the change to mine
soon.
For the full press release from Google go here.
