woohoo - go microformats! On 15/11/06, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ray Champagne wrote: > > Here's a question that hasn't been answered, maybe 'cause there isn't > one: > > we talk all day about protecting ourselves from these gnarly bastages, > is > > there any way to fight back? > > > > I'd love to see a way for me to block them, then fire back with my own > > script - it might not solve anything, but man, it would feel good... > > One worthwhile thing is to make what they're doing less valuable. > > Anywhere you dynamically convert URLs to links.. in message boards, > blogs, etc... add the rel="nofollow" attribute. > > One of the reasons spammers do what they do is to increase search engine > visibility... the more sites that link to you, the better your search > engine ranking will be. > > However, most of the major search engines will *NOT* count links with > the rel="nofollow" attribute. > > http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728 > > I'm doing this in blogcfm (and I think in cfmbb too) > > It doesn't stop them from spamming you, but if everyone did it, it > wouldn't be worthwhile to the spammers to do it. At least, not for the > purpose of increasing search engine visibility. > > Rick > >
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