Lorelle,
I had the very unfortunate experience of working in the SEO industry
for some years, and while I didn't enjoy any of it - I did learn about
what search engines do and don't recognise and, much more importantly,
what SEO engineers think search engines do and don't recognise.
rel="whatever" used to carry a lot of weight with search engines
(that's a fact) and it still does carry some weight, but to a far
lesser extent. This guy still thinks the "keywords" meta tag is
effective, so it's pretty reasonable to assume that he isn't all that
up to date on modern practices.
IP banning can be circumvented by proxy easily, you don't have to be
smart for that.
Introducing a dynamic rel="nofollow" attribute on external links is
easy and does no harm to the codex at all - personally, I would give
it a try.
Just my 2c
John
On 4 Nov 2010, at 17:38, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:
He keeps reopening accounts, so Thor has been ineffective with his
hammer. mrmist has had conversations with him asking him to stop and
nothing has stopped. nofollow is ineffective as it leaves the crap
while taking away nothing. Search engines stopped recognizing nofollow
a long time ago, if they ever really did.
Hopefully protecting the page so only admins can edit will stop it for
now but we need to know if there is an IP block or something similar
that will prevent his accessing the Codex, unless he's smart enough to
use a proxy. There are ways around everything, so protecting the page
from edits seems to be the best bet, as that is the one is he
targeting. If he starts on another page... sigh.
This has been a problem since the beginning but this person is beyond
persistent. It's a really strange case and kudos to mrmist for staying
on top of this above and beyond the call of duty.
Lorelle
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Otto <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:04 PM, John O'Nolan <[email protected]>
wrote:
The simplest way to get rid of him would be to automatically add
rel="nofollow" to all external anchor tags inside the codex.
Or I can just go all Thor with the ban hammer and delete his account.
What's the page he's editing, or username, or what have you?
-Otto
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