Comments on: Spammers Suck http://www.kevindhendricks.com/2005/01/30/spammers-suck/ Writer, editor, web geek. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:01:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Josh http://www.kevindhendricks.com/2005/01/30/spammers-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-1296 Josh Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:18:45 +0000 http://kevindhendricks.com/2005/01/30/spammers-suck/#comment-1296 I'm not at all a fan of this "nofollow" trash. What it does is it tells Google to ignore links in blog comments and trackbacks when it is ranking phrases associated with that link. That's great if you have links all over your blog that aren't trustworthy, but what if your blog comments are 100% from honest users? What if I <em>want</em> Google to associate the links from my comments to their respective sites when doing ranking? "nofollow" kills that idea, and makes blogs less useful to Google rankings when it gets installed. The solution is to actually remove all comment spam from your blog so you don't have fake comments anywhere on it. Yes, sometimes you have to keep close tabs on your comments, but it's possible to do. I've done it. Other than that, <a href="http://blog.joshlewis.org/archives/000649.php" rel="nofollow">closing comments</a> is a pretty good way to go. I’m not at all a fan of this “nofollow” trash. What it does is it tells Google to ignore links in blog comments and trackbacks when it is ranking phrases associated with that link.

That’s great if you have links all over your blog that aren’t trustworthy, but what if your blog comments are 100% from honest users? What if I want Google to associate the links from my comments to their respective sites when doing ranking? “nofollow” kills that idea, and makes blogs less useful to Google rankings when it gets installed.

The solution is to actually remove all comment spam from your blog so you don’t have fake comments anywhere on it. Yes, sometimes you have to keep close tabs on your comments, but it’s possible to do. I’ve done it. Other than that, closing comments is a pretty good way to go.

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