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Do I not understand "nofollow" at all?

by CDarklock
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Okay, so either this person is really stupid, or I really do not understand something.

I got spam on my blog with about a hundred lines of this in it.

keywords1 <a href="LINK" rel="nofollow">keywords2</a> keywords3
I've been staring at this in the mod queue, and I'm wondering.

Is the nofollow intended as a bribe, so I'll approve the comment and he'll get the traffic?

Or am I just clueless about this? WTF is going on?
#nofollow #understand
  • Profile picture of the author LondonPaladin
    does your blog automatically nofollow comments?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      I was going to ask the same thing, then realized he was
      probably looking at the comments before approving.

      Could be the usual spambot working hard.
      With a 100 of them, I know you knew this.

      I read somewhere that those who are afraid at
      de-indexing, will put a nofollow tag, erroneously thinking
      that they can spam the heck out of things and not
      get slapped by the big G. They assume that if the
      nofollow is there, then google will not see them
      spamming. That may be close to what the clown
      was thinking. That way, they can post the links
      on any given page, no problem. Or so they think.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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