{"id":20524,"date":"2005-01-18T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T03:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2005\/01\/18\/rel-equals-nofollow"},"modified":"2005-03-11T00:14:22","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T06:14:22","slug":"rel-equals-nofollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2005\/01\/18\/rel-equals-nofollow","title":{"rendered":"Rel Equals Nofollow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt&#8217;s about time.  Several major search engines are adding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ysearchblog.com\/archives\/000069.html\">link no-follow support<\/a> to combat <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comment_spam\">comment spam<\/a>.  For years we&#8217;ve been able to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robots.txt\">tell search spiders to ignore an entire page<\/a>, but there&#8217;s been no way to tell them to ignore just one (or several) <em>individual links<\/em> on a page.  Now we can, by tagging each untrusted link with <tt>rel=\"nofollow\"<\/tt>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow you can write a news article or weblog entry containing links you care to <em>promote<\/em> (by allowing Google\/Yahoo to increase their page ranking) while forcing any content supplied by readers (<em>i.e.<\/em> comments) to be ignored by the search engines.  No reader-supplied page-rank-boosting links &rarr; no more comment spam.  Done and done.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore coverage: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20050118-4536.html\">ArsTechnica<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggercon.org\/2005\/01\/15#a3294\">Dave Winer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1752331,00.asp\">eWeek article<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/msnsearch\/archive\/2005\/01\/18\/nofollow_tags.aspx\">MSN<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googleblog\/2005\/01\/preventing-comment-spam.html\">Google<\/a> <strike>(entry removed for some reason)<\/strike>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Update 1\/20:<\/b> Of course, removing the incentive to do something doesn&#8217;t cause it to disappear immediately.  I&#8217;m tracking the opposition to nofollow on a <a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2005\/01\/19\/nofollow-no-cry\">more recent weblog entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time. Several major search engines are adding link no-follow support to combat comment spam. For years we&#8217;ve been able to tell search spiders to ignore an entire page, but there&#8217;s been no way to tell them to ignore just one (or several) individual links on a page. Now we can, by tagging each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}