I’ve mentioned before that I sometimes get a whole lot of comment spam. Today I had a good 80 spam comments pummel the website, but the new version of MovableType and MT Blacklist has done a remarkable job of catching - and withholding from publication - comment spam.
Now a significant nail in the coffin of comment spam has recently been announced by Google and others, and I’ve just dropped in the nofollow plugin, so comment URL’s won’t be followed or ranked by the main search engines. It really was very easy to do.
Hopefully this should at least make a start to undermining the value to spammers of links pointing back to their sites. Unfortunately the huge number of dead weblogs out there still pose something of a target, and I doubt they’ll discriminate between a weblog with nofollow enabled, and a weblog without - at least in the short term.
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