Spammers post unwanted comments in blogs, journals, guestbooks, forums and all over the internet to try and promote their annoying websites in search
engines.
Add the "Don't Link Spam Me" badge to your page and tell spammers that they’re wasting their time.
Wear this badge on your site with pride - in just two steps: Please note, by adding the "Don't Spam Me!" badge to your site you are helping promote the Don't Spam Me - Ethical SEO Campaign page in search engines. We're aware of the irony! Use the dropdown menu to add the rel="nofollow" command to the badge and search engines will ignore it.
Just what is this rel="nofollow" malarkey anyway?
On Janurary 18th in 2005 Google, Yahoo and MSN Search announced a new command designed to put an end to comment spam. As Google's own blog said, "If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it."
The new tag Google talked about isn't really a tag at all. It's a command designed to sit inside the well established anchor tag. This is good. Adding a new command to an established tag means that web pages which support the "nofollow" relationship will continue to look as beautiful as ever and there will be no need to write different commands for different browsers.
Add rel="nofollow" to any anchor tag and Google, Yahoo and MSN's search engine robots (know as spiders) will ignore the link.
If the search engines are ignoring the links in your blog comments, forum or guestbook, etc, then spammers can't use your site or your journal to promote theirs.
For example, search engines will follow this link:
<a href="http://www.example.com">My Example</a>
Search engines will not follow this link:
<a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow">
My Example</a>
You can use the form provided with the badge code above to automatically add rel="nofollow" to badge's own links. After all, you'll be adding the code to your page and it up to you to decide whether you want search engine spiders to follow the link from it.
Some of the comment spammers use the phrase "search engine optimisation" to describe what they do. They're wrong. They're nothing more than spammers. Search engine optimisation is the process of ensuring search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves, Wisenut, Gigablast and many others can read your site as easily as human readers can and making sure the search engines know what your site is actually about.
This page has two goals; to help protect your site from spam - as the sight of the badge should persuade spammers to buzz off - and to promote ethical SEO.
Add the "Don't Link Spam Me" badge to your page and tell spammers that they’re wasting their time.
Show that your blog is a NO SPAM zone
Wear this badge on your site with pride - in just two steps: Please note, by adding the "Don't Spam Me!" badge to your site you are helping promote the Don't Spam Me - Ethical SEO Campaign page in search engines. We're aware of the irony! Use the dropdown menu to add the rel="nofollow" command to the badge and search engines will ignore it.
Just what is this rel="nofollow" malarkey anyway?
On Janurary 18th in 2005 Google, Yahoo and MSN Search announced a new command designed to put an end to comment spam. As Google's own blog said, "If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it."
The new tag Google talked about isn't really a tag at all. It's a command designed to sit inside the well established anchor tag. This is good. Adding a new command to an established tag means that web pages which support the "nofollow" relationship will continue to look as beautiful as ever and there will be no need to write different commands for different browsers.
Add rel="nofollow" to any anchor tag and Google, Yahoo and MSN's search engine robots (know as spiders) will ignore the link.
If the search engines are ignoring the links in your blog comments, forum or guestbook, etc, then spammers can't use your site or your journal to promote theirs.
For example, search engines will follow this link:
<a href="http://www.example.com">My Example</a>
Search engines will not follow this link:
<a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow">
My Example</a>
You can use the form provided with the badge code above to automatically add rel="nofollow" to badge's own links. After all, you'll be adding the code to your page and it up to you to decide whether you want search engine spiders to follow the link from it.
Some of the comment spammers use the phrase "search engine optimisation" to describe what they do. They're wrong. They're nothing more than spammers. Search engine optimisation is the process of ensuring search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves, Wisenut, Gigablast and many others can read your site as easily as human readers can and making sure the search engines know what your site is actually about.
This page has two goals; to help protect your site from spam - as the sight of the badge should persuade spammers to buzz off - and to promote ethical SEO.
