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SEO NewsRobert Woodward wrote in a comment on the rel="nofollow" post:
Just trying to spawn a little support for this idea since you folks seem to be working closely with the search engines.
The rel="nofollow" tag, while a step in the right direction, stops short of preventing automated harvesting of sensitive URLs from within a web page with a simple engine search.
What is needed is something similar, like rel="noindex", which would prevent the URL from being indexed by the search engines at all.
For example, I can change the name of my comment script and the spammers disappear until the next time google indexes my site, and then they come back. If the URL to the script wasn't in the search engine in the first place, the spammer would have to manually visit each site to figure it out - very difficult to do and would turn an automated spamming process into a very manual one.
This would also make it more difficult to find other sensitive URLs, yet have the rest of the page content indexed.
Another idea would be to create tags that search engines would respect and not index between the tags - sort of like the NOINDEX parameter you can put on an entire page, or a robots.txt file, but it would only apply to text outside the noindex tags. I can think of lots of applications to where you would want your page indexed, but not certain pieces within the page...
Just an idea that requires some significant thought, but I think one that should be considered. Thanks for listening!
I think the rel="nofollow" initiative is just the beginning of a set of tags that will allow publishers to control how their content is harvested.
In the case of blogs, it's like micro-control for micro-content.
Looking at my original title for the post "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me", it's like, "I want you to bite me, but I don't like to be bitten around the face, chest, neck, or head. But the rest of me is fair game."
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr, very grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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The idea is beautiful in its simplicity - all links added into comments should have rel="nofollow" added. Participating search engines will then recognise this as a link that ...
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Otherwise known as "link" or "comment spam," the ruse is as old as Web marketing. Such Web site promoters use the comment form on forums, blogs or any Web page to place or gain a link pointing back to their own Web site. And because Google and other search engines tabulate search results in part by a Web page's link popularity with other sites, the trick can boost a site's ranking--and more importantly, traffic. It can also produce irrelevant search results.
In the age of blogging, the problem has grown acute because publishers have little recourse to stop outsiders from littering their comment forms with bogus links, short of shutting them down or inserting password protections.
entire article: http://news.com.com/Google+aims+to+outsmart+search+tricksters/2100-1024_3-5540740.html?tag=nefd.top
Got this from http://www.micropersuasion.com/
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On the Internet, ...
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project was conceived in 1994. The braindaughter of Jimmy Nail,
the concept was to create websites with content generated by
monkeys. An inadvertent spin-off of the project was the
invention of the weblog, when, in 1999, Nail's five years of
research reached a breakthrough, when Chuah the chimpanzee
learned to surf the internet, and copy interesting phrases into
a word processor. These phrases were fed into a search engine,
with the results published on a website called Robot Wisdom.
The Monkeylog project became the Infinite Monkeys project when, later in 1999, Dennis Taylor wrote an heurolinguistic algorithm that was able to detect cogent thoughts from otherwise nonsensical text strings. Instead of the arduous training of individual monkeys, it was possible to simply fill abandoned underground structures with millions of apes, provide them with computers connected to one central brainserve, and let the algorithm sort the results. The output formed the basis for popular weblogs such as MetaFilter, memepool and FactoVision.
Attempts to increase the quality output in certain chimps involved practices such as enforced sexual stimulation (resulting in Scary Duck); frequent breaks for exercise bikes (Kottke.org); exposure to the music of Carly Simon (Pursed Lips); and ingestion of cannibalised beef-matter (Zeldman). The truth of the matter is that weblogs everywhere are written by monkey and ape-kind, with the sole exception of yours (although there are rumours that Wil Wheaton is the secret work of human beings).
Like I said you'll see this stuff here first!
The COO of the search engine was interviewed for the online radio broadcast which features influential people "whose presence can initiate progress or ensure success".
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Yahoo is particularly interesting. It is actually ... If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals ... In an exciting bit of news for bloggers everywhere, Google and a number of other search engines are rolling out support for a new attribute for hyperlinks that tells the search engine not to follow or index that link. Your new spam-safe links should take the form:
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050121-090216 While debate over the usefulness of the new nofollow link attributes continues, a parody site called Link Condom has just gone up to stress some of the issues beyond blogging that the attribute raises. Will people use it to link… Related…
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