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Key point: if your platform allows people to post links that Google can see Spammers will inevitably try to take advantage of your website
by hayksaakian 5y ago
Key point: if your platform allows people to post links that Google can see Spammers will inevitably try to take advantage of your website
- hypertele-Xii 5y agohttps://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/qualify-outbound-links https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
- infogulch 5y agoIn particular: > rel="ugc" > We recommend marking user-generated content (UGC) links, such as comments and forum posts, with the ugc value.
- dclusin 5y agoUgc content “may” be used by google as a ranking signal. It’s definitely not a panacea.
- mpol 5y ago"rel=nofollow" is the only somewhat standard one. I have never heard of "rel=ugc" and I wonder if google made it up, does that work on bing and yandex? I mostly use "rel=nofollow noopener noreferrer" which should cover most "use-cases" of spammers.
- dspillett 5y agoThat won't stop the spam appearing, and the spam accounts to generate it, it'll just remove (most of) the benefit to the spammer. It takes less faf for them to just post anyway than to check if you use nofollow/other, and they may still get a small side benefit if a blog-spam scraper or such takes your content and reposts it without the extra directives.
- tinus_hn 5y agoSolution: for free accounts, only show links with the appropriate tags so they don’t improve ranking. This was clear a decade ago, did we go backwards?
- Lascaille 5y agoSpammers don't fill comment sections with spam to improve the ranking of that website, they fill comment sections with spam to target the users of that site.
- mnw21cam 5y agoThey fill the comment sections with spam to improve the ranking of a different site that they are linking to in the spam.
- vintermann 5y agoYeah, but they don't bother checking for nofollow attributes. Not spamming people who enforce nofollow attributes would just encourage more people to adopt it, which the spammer doesn't want. Either way, the spammer rarely spams his own thing. They spam what someone else pays them to spam, and don't care if it actually works as long as their customer believes it works (much like legal advertising).
- tinus_hn 5y agoIn other news, even if you block spam spammers still keep sending it, because it’s cheaper to not care. Does that mean we should not block spam?
- danuker 5y ago> This was clear a decade ago, did we go backwards? Maybe to you. But you are not the only person in the world. And as the other comment said, spam still gets exposure to other comment readers.
- leke 5y agoIs there something simple, like a tag, we can use to wrap comments in to ask google not to use in search results?
- clusterfish 5y agorel=nofollow etc. Although not sure how much it's respected
- dazc 5y agonofollow will prevent links being counted but it doesn't stop you being spammed. Spammers don't bother checking existing links at their target site since indescriminate spamming at scale obviously works and doesn't need such finese.