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Q: New rel="nofollow" to preventing comment spam attribute ( No Answer,   1 Comment )
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Subject: New rel="nofollow" to preventing comment spam attribute
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: kamikaze_optimizer-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 15 Feb 2005 00:05 PST
Expires: 17 Mar 2005 00:05 PST
Question ID: 474774
I own a large forum.  I have just placed all public links into a php
redirect file (much like a cgi bin)that I deny access to all bot's via
the robots.txt file.

Now, I have just read this:
://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

Should I redo my work and simply put the rel="nofollow" in the link? 
Or am I ok with my current method.  The end result should be the same,
I just want to make sure that all bots and engines still love me at
the end of the day.
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Subject: Re: New rel="nofollow" to preventing comment spam attribute
From: willcodeforfood-ga on 25 Feb 2005 15:47 PST
 
Obvously the problem stems from posts such as:

I've always thought that aliens have been among us for years and I
have a picture of one <a href="http://www.scamsite.com/">here</a>.


So long as you do one of the following, you're fine:

1) This is the method it sounds like you are using.  It will work fine:
I've always thought that aliens have been among us for years and I
have a picture of one <a
href="http://www.myforum.com/getlink.php&id=123456">here</a>.

2) This is the method google is suggesting:
I've always thought that aliens have been among us for years and I
have a picture of one <a href="http://www.scamsite.com/"
rel="nofollow">here</a>.

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