Comments on: A refinement to rel=”nofollow”

By: steve

steve — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:34:07 +0000

I’m still waiting to see what the “official” nofollow implementation is going to look like.

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:26:41 +0000

That’s an excellent idea. I’d use a plugin for that in an instant.

So do you have a download for us? :-)

By: steve

steve — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:00:38 +0000

Yup, and a “this comment is OK” button that only I can push that skips the 10 days for a first time, legit poster. But a white-list would be tricky because if spammers knew that’s how things worked they could spoof it. I guess there could be a cookie or something.

But I don’t think it’s that bad to make people wait 10 days for their pagerank.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:06:59 +0000

Another next refinement would seem to be a sort of white-listing.

If you’ve vetted one entry from a poster to default their subsequent entries to go straight through without the nofollow from day one.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:55:55 +0000

Yup, that’s the idea. 10 days from now, rel=”nofollow” will be removed from both of those links.

By: Mark J

Mark J — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:51:16 +0000

Sounds good. So URIs in the comment body also get the treatment? test

I think that once this new approach has gained traction and has existed for a while, comment spam will lessen, as they start to see that it is ineffective.