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Monday 30 June 2014

Spam Comments? Nofollow Them

Do you hate it when the comments section of your article gets flooded by spam links and unhelpful feedback? Information sites get that all the time. Even worse, these comments aren't about to stop anytime soon. To counter this threat, especially in blogs, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in 2005 joined forces and created "nofollow."

The "nofollow" is designed to not include outgoing links, which is common in spam comments, as votes to a website's credibility. This can be done with the following syntax: