{"id":210,"date":"2005-01-24T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T02:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/24\/google-preventing-comment-spam\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:27:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:27:53","slug":"google-preventing-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/google-preventing-comment-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Google preventing comment spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googleblog\/\" title=\"Google Blog\">Google Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, January 18, 2005 Preventing comment spam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re a blogger (or a blog reader), you&#8217;re painfully familiar with<br \/>\npeople who try to raise their own websites&#8217; search engine rankings by<br \/>\nsubmitting linked blog comments like &quot;Visit my discount pharmaceuticals<br \/>\nsite.&quot; This is called comment spam, we don&#8217;t like it either, and we&#8217;ve<br \/>\nbeen testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees<br \/>\nthe attribute (rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;) on hyperlinks, those links won&#8217;t get any<br \/>\ncredit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn&#8217;t a<br \/>\nnegative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it&#8217;s just a<br \/>\nway to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas<br \/>\nlike blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Blog Tuesday, January 18, 2005 Preventing comment spam If you&#8217;re a blogger (or a blog reader), you&#8217;re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites&#8217; search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like &quot;Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.&quot; This is called comment spam, we don&#8217;t like it either, and we&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogging","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}