After a year and a half of faithful service and helping fellow J-Bloggers out, I have decided to remove DoFollow from the blog. You could say it was an April Fools joke (I actually removed it on April 1st, and so far the only AF “prank” on CTM) on the spammers; and that is the reason for the decision, especially now that the URLs left by commentators will appear differently since the theme switch, showing the HTTP prefix…

Since removing DoFollow, I haven’t gotten a lot of spam (and they say removing the nofollow tag reduces spam, so to speak)…

“The idea behind the nofollow technique was to take away all the “link juice” comment spammers wanted, thus encouraging them to stop spamming. Google introduced the nofollow tag to discourage comment spam from flooding their search indexes…”

Lorelle @ Blog Herald

And…

“…I have to say I’m getting a little tired of the MANY, MANY comments I’m getting from people who put things like “Real Estate Atlanta” or “Best Web Hosting” in the name field. Most of the comments left by these people are clearly just intended to gain what they think is going to be a ton of Google juice from my site since it is now a PR6.”

Randa Clay

I mean, what’s an Otaku going to do with water faucets, monorails, and cell phones from a desperate mobile phone company? If I wanted to keep the DoFollow, of course I could just delete or edit the comment, but I really don’t want to do that either.

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Written by: Sanjo-chan (507 Posts)

Posted on: April 7, 2009 13:59 (Articles)
Tag(s): blogging, spammers
Website: http://centakume.info/