I noticed this article this morning, which basically says that Google have created a new attribute for hyperlinks. It’s called nofollow, and allows you to link to a URL without the link getting credit in Google’s Page Rank system (which works by giving a URL more prominence based on how many sites link to it). This means (drum rolllllll…) that bloggers now have the ability to force ALL comment links to be ignored by Google. And MSN. And Yahoo.
This is going to kill comment spam virtually overnight. Naturally the solution was invented by Google, not Microsoft (who are great at buying or copying ideas, not so hot at creating them).
The plugin for WordPress is here. It’s running on this site, working as advertised!
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