Preventing Comment Spam

Google Blog: “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.” Fan-tas-tic!

Update: jarango.com is now nofollow-enabled.

Update: There’s an interesting thread going on Webmaster World on some of the unexpected / potentially undesirable side effects of the nofollow attribute.

January 19, 2005 | Archived in Business, Design, Information Architecture