January 28, 2005
Search Engines Against Spammers
Some of the largest search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN Search) are getting together to combat spammers. The aim is to combat spammers who use forum and blog commenting features by allowing site owners to add “rel=”nofollow“” to your links. This additional HTML attribute will identify to the search engines not to follow the link hopefully meaning that the spammers can not automatically find site's comment forms via the search engine reducing the amount of spam.
If you want to enable this on your own blog, forum or online form then just add “rel=”nofollow“” to your <a> tags. For example, change this:
<a href=“the link to comment page”>link text</a>
to:
<a rel=“nofollow” href=“the link to comment page”>link text</a>
As you can see it is very simple.
Links
New Scientist Article
