Moveable Type have just introduced a ‘nofollow’ plugin. This works for both 2.661 and 3.1, and adds the ‘nofollow’ tag to all links in comments; this magic tag will tell Google not to index the URL that appears in the comment. In theory, this will make comment spamming completely useless.
Checking my activity logs, I saw that I had 850 comments blocked by MT-Blacklist in the past 24 hours. God knows how much of my bandwidth these slime are consuming.
This is a test; the URL below should have the shiny new tag in it!
http://www.dreamlyrics.co.uk
That means that the site in question will get no googlejuice from this comment; to find out what the site is, you’ll just have to click on the link.
Do a View->View Source on this post to see the result.
One of those things that makes you say, “Why didn’t they think of this before?” I wanted WordPress but my server doesn’t offer the right PHP, so it looks like I’ll have to go the MT route.
- temple