Hello, I read this article about how the big 3 search engines joined forces to fight the comment spam is this true. The artcle said Google, Yahoo and MSN will now be incorporating a new attribute (rel="nofollow") that will tell their spiders to discredit links in blog comments so that spammers will get no benefit whatsoever. I post comments on relevant blogs with relevant anchor text..Will I be waisting my time THANKS FOR ANY INPUT Best Regards John
Yes, this is pretty old news, but yes, you will be wasting your time for the most part. Unless one of the SE's doesn't follow the rules and follows your link anyway. But it won't be a total waste to make people aware of your site, the blogger may link to it if it's good, and your comment is good. (The most ironic thing, this hasn't stopped spam a bit, it still floooods in on the blogs I help run, unless I have a unique captcha or something else to catch it.)
Dude thats why the name is Webmasterwanabe besides my other work keeps me busy about 12 hours a day. I took a few days vacation and been reading artcles all day. Hey just a bit slow here I dont even have a ipod yet
I'm not quite sure that nofollow thing works... well may be on pagerank but, spiders still follow the nofollow links...
Very true, but I wouldn't waste the time advertising on lots of them when you could get quality indexed links.
This was introduced in January 2005. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
I just moderate all comments, its easier. Also if you don't run Wordpress you don't get any automated spam. My comment system is a custom AJAX submission form so spammers can't do automated spamming. It also looks really cool when you submit a comment so people will come back just to use the form again.
i dont know what your source is about that yahoo and msn will use nofollow tag too. i hope this is true. when google see the nofollow tag, it ignores that links