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rel=”nofollow” enabled

Posted : January 20, 2005 at 2:28 am [America/Los_Angeles]

Today we are pleased to announce our full support for the rel="nofollow"
attribute to hyperlinks introduced to address the main cause of weblog
spam: the payoff of higher placement in search engine results.

This initiative, with announced support from Google, Yahoo, MSN
(and surely more to come), will direct search engines to ignore links
with this attribute set for the purposes of spidering or increasing
search engine relevance or ranking.

For current users of Movable Type, this support is implemented as a simple plugin (zip [4K], tar/gzip
[3K]– tested on MT 3.x and MT 2.661). For most users enabling
“nofollow” support involves placing a single file in your plugins
directory. All links submitted by external users in comments and
TrackBacks will then be modifed to add the rel="nofollow" attribute.

If you’re interested in specific details of its operation and the
effect it has on Movable Type template tags, see our overview entitled “Introduction to nofollow” on the Professional Network weblog. For an overview of our support across all Six Apart platforms, please see Ben’s “Support for nofollow” post on Six Log.

Also, in case you missed it, you should check out the “Movable Type Guide for Fighting Comment Spam” we published a week and a half ago but may have gotten drowned out by other matters.

Movable Type ‘nofollow’ plugin

Since I have had my fair share of pains with the nuisance of comment spamming, I fully support and applaud this joint initiative.

So here’s another nail in the spammers coffin: This blog is rel=”nofollow” enabled!

- Anand

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