via Scobelizer

Google, Yahoo!, MSN and many others have come in a lovefest together to help rid the world and even more so blogging of comment spam/link spam.

A new property will be parsed out of <A> tags. If the property rel=”nofollow” is present, then the link will not be followed by bots, and thus provide no juice at all to the link.

The best way to stop comment spam is to make it worthless. I’d like to suggest one modification. When I post links myself I can use this (Scoble gives a good example). BUT, in my blogging software I want to bake in rel=”commentspam” or similiar for unapproved links. I’d like the bots to follow this and SUBTRACT juice from the site. If they can take this first step, they can take the next one and make it even more worthless.

Now, the drum roll….I’ve turned comments back on, because hey, they mean nothing to the spammer anymore. No sense wasting your time here boys, you’ll get nothing from me.

If you want help jamming this into Wordpress until an official update/plugin is intoduced (Google’s blog entry notes that WP is participating, so it should be coming from them.) let me know and I’ll post up an instructions post.