Micro Persuasion: Report: Google to Put Kibosh on Blog Comment Spam

» Google Rumored to Devolop Comment Spam Killer from MarketingVOX
Steve Rubel's Micro Persuasion gives the scoop on rumors that Google is developing a new sort of tag that will allow blogs to fence off comments, thus reducing the economic incentive for comment spamming. The site links to reported examples of the meth... [Read More]

» Google to Put Kibosh on Blog Comment Spam from The RSS Blog
Randy: Another attempt to stop blog comment spam. I have to wonder if this one will work. The problem is distribution. If less than half of the blogging software giants (Typepad, LiveJournal, Blogger, Radio) implement it, then blog comment spam will co... [Read More]

» Google to Kill Blog Comment Spam? from ProBlogger
Steve Rubel points to a rumored announcement of a system of blocking Google's bots reading your comments - thereby taking the incentive for comment spammers to leave comments. 'But since then several bloggers have reported that Winer was testing... [Read More]

» Google To Add "Nofollow" Tagging Of Links To Fight Spam? from Search Engine Watch Blog
Dave Winer posted a cryptic Watch This Space post yesterday, pointing at a page that many have interpreted to mean that Google will be providing support for a "nofollow" attribute that can be added to links.... [Read More]

» Report: Google to Put Kibosh on Blog Comment Spam from del.icio.us WebCites
This is a technical solution to comment spam that requires the cooperation of weblog publishers. Does the approach require too much collaboration to work? This solution seems to put humans back into the equation, driving down scalability.... [Read More]

» Winer set to deliver comment spam knockout from The Blog Herald: more blog news more often
Reports are surfacing that a mysterious posting from Dave Winer on the BloggerCon website stating "Watch this space for an interesting announcement." and comments on Scripting News on Friday, indicate that Dave has teamed up with Google to test a rel... [Read More]

» rel="nofollow" attribute to fight spam in comments? from Articles about link building and PageRank
There's a new rumor about Google... another one! Google might be testing a new mechanism allowing to fight comment spam, by ignoring links that contain a rel="nofollow" attribute. Here is a standard link: [Read More]

» Anti-Spamming by Google from Hispanic Business Info
Another attempt to stop blog comment spam. Please! Please!. Blog Spamming is a big headache and waste of time. Apparently, Google PR will not honor the Spammers. Anti-Spamming by Google - Anti-Spamming by Google... [Read More]

» Anti-Spamming by Google from Hispanic Business Info
Another attempt to stop blog comment spam. Please! Please!. Blog Spamming is a big headache and waste of time. Apparently, Google PR will not honor the Spammers. Anti-Spamming by Google... [Read More]

» Google To Add "Nofollow" Tagging Of Links To Fight Spam? from Search Engine Watch Blog
Dave Winer posted a cryptic Watch This Space post yesterday, pointing at a page that many have interpreted to mean that Google will be providing support for a "nofollow" attribute that can be added to links.... [Read More]

» Comment Spam and Google from Brian Sweeting
The buzz going around today is that Google is to introduce a new method for qwelling comment spam. Essentially, what this would be is that any anchor tag with the attribute--rel="nofollow"--would be omitted from it's PageRank calculations. This is a... [Read More]

» Google To Add "Nofollow" Tagging Of Links To Fight Spam? from Search Engine Watch Blog
Dave Winer posted a cryptic Watch This Space post yesterday, pointing at a page that many have interpreted to mean that Google will be providing support for a "nofollow" attribute that can be added to links.... [Read More]

» Comment spam : Google to help respond from Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs
Getting a little techie here, but word is making its way around the blogosphere today that Google is going to try to limit Blog comment spam. Micropersuasion, Scobleizer and Search Engine Roundtable report Google has been testing and will announce... [Read More]

» Comment spam : Google to respond from Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs
Getting a little techie here, but word is making its way around the blogosphere today that Google is going to try to limit Blog comment spam. Micropersuasion, Scobleizer and Search Engine Roundtable report Google has been testing and will announce... [Read More]

» Google introducing new Link Type to block Comment Spam from TheNetReport.com
If you haven’t heard yet today, it has been leaked just about everywhere that Google is going to introduce a new link type, which can attached to blog comment, and thus (hopefully) end any advantage for comment spam. “Such Web [Read More]

» Google To Add "Nofollow" Tagging Of Links To Fight Spam? from Search Engine Watch Blog
Dave Winer posted a cryptic Watch This Space post yesterday, pointing at a page that many have interpreted to mean that Google will be providing support for a "nofollow" attribute that can be added to links.... [Read More]

» Google To Add "Nofollow" Tagging Of Links To Fight Spam? from Search Engine Watch Blog
NOTE:Support has now been officially announced. See the Google, Yahoo, MSN Unite On Support For Nofollow Attribute For Links post for more. Dave Winer posted a cryptic Watch This Space post yesterday, pointing at a page that many have interpreted... [Read More]

» Comment Spam and Google from Brian Sweeting
The buzz going around today is that Google is to introduce a new method for qwelling comment spam. Essentially, what this would be is that any anchor tag with the attribute--rel="nofollow"--would be omitted from it's PageRank calculations. This is a... [Read More]

» Google Moves to Block Comment Spam from Pajama Hadin
That's great news for all us bloggers. I have heard a lot of bloggers recently complain about having to deal with comment spam. I have had to deal with it myself quite a bit. As a certified search engine marketing specialist, I know what the spa... [Read More]

» Bugger off, comment spammers. from Sideblog:ParaSci
Bugger off, comment spammers. This looks like a big step towards ending the scourge of comment spam. Of course, it will take a while for the morons to realize that their comment spam isn’t working any more before they stop... [Read More]

» NOFOLLOW: A good try, poorly executed from Buzz Marketing with Blogs

The newest tool in stopping blog comment spam was discussed and debated and praised today after being announced by Google and Six Apart (though not before bloggers got the scoop). The idea is that by including "rel=nofollow" in an HREF tag... [Read More]

» NoFollow - A Non-Solution to Comment Spam from Threadwatch.org

Late last night bloggers all over the world started what im sure will be a very short-lived networked jump for joy as Google, [Read More]

» NoFollow - A Non-Solution to Comment Spam from Threadwatch.org

Late last night bloggers all over the world started what im sure will be a very short-lived networked jump for joy as Google, [Read More]

» Google, “nofollow” and Comment Spam from Insanely Great Sites!
Much ado over comment spam and “no follow.” Have Google, Yahoo and MSN just made your life easier, or more difficult? [Read More]

» New nofollow tag cheers bloggers, but fails blogs? from Platinax Internet News
SPECIAL REPORT A new tag is to be supported by Google, and it looks likely that Yahoo! and Microsoft will lend some degree of support to it. Publicly claimed to be for the fight against blog spam, it effectively leaves... [Read More]

» Spam em comentários de blogs com os dias contados from C o l a g e m
Se o Google realmente lançar este novo mecanismo que vai permitir aos donos de blog excluírem suas páginas de comentários... [Read More]

» New nofollow tag cheers bloggers, but fails blogs? from Platinax Internet News
SPECIAL REPORT A new tag is to be supported by Google, and it looks likely that Yahoo! and Microsoft will lend some degree of support to it. Publicly claimed to be for the fight against blog spam, it effectively leaves... [Read More]

» New nofollow tag cheers bloggers, but fails blogs? from Platinax Internet News
SPECIAL REPORT A new tag is to be introduced to the internet, instructing search engine spiders to ignore specified links, and major search engines Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft will support it. Publicly claimed to be for the fight against blog... [Read More]

» No follow, no fair! from Netcoms dot com
Trackbacks are a diluted form of link exchange and the 'nofollow' barrier doesn't exactly encourage you to link to others. The problem is that setting up a trackback whitelist would be more trouble than it's worth and the hassle of comment spam is wo... [Read More]

» Here we go again with Blogware - Spam Spam and more Spam from Iggy Uncensored
Blogware hypes how they really take all forms of Spam seriously. They have stated many times that they are doing things on the backend to control trackback and comment Spam. Yet once again my site is seeing this type of Spam on a regular basis. Of cour... [Read More]