Monday, May 9, 2005

Nofollow for Journals

One of the hidden features of our latest update is support for the rel="nofollow" convention for links in comments.  Since Journals automagically makes anything in a comment that looks like a link clickable, this will hopefully help discourage link spam from getting started.  (Nofollow tells engines such as Google and Technorati that the link itself wasn't created or endorsed by the author of the page and so the link doesn't mean any additional weight should be given to the link's target.  It's not the best name for the concept, but why quibble?)

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