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How To Prevent Comment Spam With Google s No Follow Attribute
utting up and maintaining your worries when it comes to
a weblog of your own could this underhanded way of getting
be done for free or built Google search ranks up.
into your paid domain site. Enterprising entities do this not
Either way, whatever you put up merely to promote the site to
on your blog becomes accessible those who access that particular
to practically anyone on the comments page, but more
World Wide Web. Your blog has the importantly to increase their
potential to gain many regular ranking in search pages to that
followers and once-in-a-while the site will stay on top of the
visitors, given that you deliver search return page.
content that is relevant and
interesting, making it an Another version of comment
excellent medium for spamming involves a website owner
advertisement or promoting who only copies the content of
products, services, or other his or her site from a different
websites relevant to its general website that ranks high on the
area of discussion. Thus, it is a Google search page. That way,
reason for companies paying blog this dishonest site owner doesn’t
owners to publish their ads on have to work as hard, to promote
their blog sites. the site and gain a considerable
following. The good news is that,
What happens, though, if a finding out if one’s site content
certain company or enterprising has been copied, has become very
individual tries to get onto your easy, as copy detection programs
blog through the comments page can be found online. Now, let’s
with an active link to their go back to the links problem.
site? That’s what’s called
comment spam, and a business Fortunately for blogs and sites
enterprise can be the least of that allow trackbacks and
comments from others, Google has of a link posted in your site by
announced their development of a someone else without your prior
way to decrease the occurrence of permission. This has the
comment spam. It’s a feature potential to increase the
known as the “nofollow” possibility of that someone
attribute, which allows site moving on to trying other
owners to add an additional possibilities that will increase
attribute in the form traffic for their website. When
rel=”follow” to any href code issuing comment spam loses its
active link. This added part of a benefit, then the spammer can
href link commands Google spiders hopefully try other things that
to disregard a link that leads are potentially laden with
outside of the host site. The honesty, for a change.
objective of this new development
is to keep those who abuse open Also, the new development will
Internet sites from reaping the help strengthen the notion that
benefits of their misdeed. bloggers and site moderators must
make an effort to ensure that
While distressed blog owners may links that lead to their site
rejoice at this good news, some will not disappoint, and their
may opt to weigh the pros and content are beneficial to the
cons of this new feature. To a users of that particular site
business owner, a positive hosting the link. In addition,
implication of using the no site owners must try to focus on
follow attribute is that, he or outstanding and read-worthy
she will be able to avoid content that will have enough
freeloaders trying to ride on his impact to the online community
own site’s Google ranking. that other sites will want to
Google’s new tag can offer you an provide a link to their site by
increased control on the effect their own choice.
services and others need not do
Perhaps the only Internet users anything themselves. The free
who will find this new attribute blog host only needs to keep the
disadvantageous are those who attribute version updated to
have become accustomed to using ensure its full effect.
comment spam as a means to
promote their own site. However, This concept of having better
it should instead be a challenge control over outgoing links isn't
for them in putting up worthwhile all new, however.
content for their site, such that Forward-thinking programmers have
Internet users will be searching been able to devise ways to
for their site by name, and not prevent search engine spiders
clicking on its link by accident. from detecting outgoing links for
For best results, have the quite a while. Yet this new
service add the nofollow Google tag gives power to the
attribute to links that other common website owner over his or
users themselves created, such as her site's outgoing links.
those within their comment, and Some may have doubts on the
the link attached to the name of effectiveness of this new
user who wrote the comment. Other service. One notion is that this
areas where the attribute can be will not be fully efficient
used include visitor statistic unless it becomes a default
sections, guestbooks, and option for bloggers and
referrer lists. webmasters. Perhaps it also does
not help that there are skeptics,
Among the first weblog software not to mention dishonest users
creators that signed up for this that will try to get past this
service are LiveJournal, Blogger, obstacle and even devise a
Wordpress, Flickr, and MSN tougher-to-beat approach to
Spaces. Users of these blog comment spamming and link
campaigns. have yet to gain popularity.
Perhaps businesses need to make a
In addition, those who do gain in habit of improving, and have
search engine ranking through faith that those Internet users,
referral links by those who who know exactly what they are
really, wholeheartedly support looking for on the web, will find
their site have the most to lose. them eventually and be satisfied
The possibility of search page with what they have to offer.
rankings being a thing of the Besides, the really great ideas
past presents itself in this are the one that stand the test
scenario. Then again, it would of time.
not hurt to pose a challenge to
those whose sites and products
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