Comments on: Use rel=”spam” to Fight Comment Spam? http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/ Advocating User-Centered URL Design Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:01:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Administrator http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-169057 Administrator Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:46:09 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-169057 You are not understanding the proposal. A few links marked rel="spam" would have zero effect. Thousands or tens of thousands of links to the same domain marked marked rel="spam" when few if any linked to the same that were not marked spam would have an effect. It would be a combination of the absolutely number of rel="spam" links and the ratio of rel="spam" to non rel="spam". In this model there'd be no way you could tag your competitors and have a reasonable effect; your links would not be significant enough. If I called you "stupid" you'd slag it off and nobody would pay me any mind. But if everyone starts calling you "stupid" them people who don't know you are going to start to believe it. See? You are not understanding the proposal. A few links marked rel=”spam” would have zero effect. Thousands or tens of thousands of links to the same domain marked marked rel=”spam” when few if any linked to the same that were not marked spam would have an effect. It would be a combination of the absolutely number of rel=”spam” links and the ratio of rel=”spam” to non rel=”spam”.

In this model there’d be no way you could tag your competitors and have a reasonable effect; your links would not be significant enough. If I called you “stupid” you’d slag it off and nobody would pay me any mind. But if everyone starts calling you “stupid” them people who don’t know you are going to start to believe it. See?

]]> By: Robert http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-113689 Robert Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:27:14 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-113689 And all you do is create a list of your competitors and mark them all as spam? I don't thing anyone should ever be able to negatively affect another website no matter the reason. No matter what someone will find a way to make it work for all the wrong reasons. And all you do is create a list of your competitors and mark them all as spam? I don’t thing anyone should ever be able to negatively affect another website no matter the reason. No matter what someone will find a way to make it work for all the wrong reasons.

]]> By: Penalizing Spam Links, Etc, Etc | Idiotprogrammer http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-80698 Penalizing Spam Links, Etc, Etc | Idiotprogrammer Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:12:42 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-80698 [...] Schinkel suggests a way to fight spam comments: assign a special attribute to them that makes it easier for google to penalize their google juice. [...] [...] Schinkel suggests a way to fight spam comments: assign a special attribute to them that makes it easier for google to penalize their google juice. [...]

]]> By: Mike Schinkel http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-16084 Mike Schinkel Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:44:51 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-16084 You wouldn't "keep them on your blog", you'd move them to a special page that Google's spiders could find and crawl but that most people would never see. You could even serve those words only to Googlebot. Of course, that would require Google to implement the modification to their ranking algorithms that I proposed otherwise it would just be helping spammers. You wouldn’t “keep them on your blog”, you’d move them to a special page that Google’s spiders could find and crawl but that most people would never see. You could even serve those words only to Googlebot. Of course, that would require Google to implement the modification to their ranking algorithms that I proposed otherwise it would just be helping spammers.

]]> By: itochan http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-15903 itochan Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:40:13 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-15903 hello, I don't understand why you want to keep the spam links and the spam messages on your blog, however you add rel="spam" to the link. I don't like that adult words are shown on my blog. hello,
I don’t understand why you want to keep the spam links and the spam messages on your blog, however you add rel=”spam” to the link.
I don’t like that adult words are shown on my blog.

]]> By: Mike Schinkel http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-4018 Mike Schinkel Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:33:57 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-4018 Thanks Sante. I'd love to push it around the blogs and forums, but haven't figured out how to inspire other to write about it. Any suggestions? BTW, I love the advice about ideas! :) Thanks Sante. I’d love to push it around the blogs and forums, but haven’t figured out how to inspire other to write about it. Any suggestions?

BTW, I love the advice about ideas! :)

]]> By: Sante http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-3976 Sante Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:58:13 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-3976 In another working life when I was a structural engineer, and before the days of the web I worked with a guy who once told me: "Sante when you come up with an idea, be sure somone has thought about it already ... " So I decided to run a query for rel="spam" and sure enough you had put your hat on that chair ! It's a great idea worth implementing from a users point of view - let's push the idea around blogs and forums and see what happens. Cheers, Sante In another working life when I was a structural engineer, and before the days of the web I worked with a guy who once told me: “Sante when you come up with an idea, be sure somone has thought about it already … ”

So I decided to run a query for rel=”spam” and sure enough you had put your hat on that chair !

It’s a great idea worth implementing from a users point of view – let’s push the idea around blogs and forums and see what happens.

Cheers,

Sante

]]> By: Mike Schinkel http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-1398 Mike Schinkel Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:52:09 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-1398 Heh! Thanks for the comment, but it will only be useful if Google were to apply it to its PageRank algorithm. Want to help me get a grassroots advocacy campaign going, you know we'll tell two friends, and they'll tell two friends, and so on and so on? ;-0 Heh! Thanks for the comment, but it will only be useful if Google were to apply it to its PageRank algorithm. Want to help me get a grassroots advocacy campaign going, you know we’ll tell two friends, and they’ll tell two friends, and so on and so on? ;-0

]]> By: Devon Young http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-1383 Devon Young Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:16:10 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/02/08/rel-spam-to-fight-comment-spam/#comment-1383 That's a brilliant idea. I love it. When I get the time, I think I might try implementing this in my blog. That’s a brilliant idea. I love it. When I get the time, I think I might try implementing this in my blog.

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