{"id":397,"date":"2005-01-19T22:50:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=397"},"modified":"2005-01-20T05:01:15","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T09:01:15","slug":"google-to-fight-blog-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/01\/19\/google-to-fight-blog-comment-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to fight blog comment spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googleblog\/2005\/01\/preventing-comment-spam.html\">Google Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re a blogger (or a blog reader), you&#8217;re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites&#8217; search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like &#8220;Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.&#8221; This is called comment spam, we don&#8217;t like it either, and we&#8217;ve been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221;) on hyperlinks, those links won&#8217;t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn&#8217;t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it&#8217;s just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googleblog\/2005\/01\/preventing-comment-spam.html\">story continued<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s really nice about this current effort is that it involves a partnership between <i>Google<\/i>, <i>MSN Search<\/i> and <i>Yahoo!<\/i> on the search side and several popular blogging sites and software including <i>WordPress<\/i>, <i>Livejournal<\/i>, <i>Blogger<\/i> and <i>MSN Spaces<\/i> among others.<\/p>\n<p>The linked article has information on how you can get involved with fighting comment spam through your blog today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Google Blog: If you&#8217;re a blogger (or a blog reader), you&#8217;re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites&#8217; search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like &#8220;Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.&#8221; This is called comment spam, we don&#8217;t like it either, and we&#8217;ve been testing a new tag that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/01\/19\/google-to-fight-blog-comment-spam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google to fight blog comment spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}