Re: link to jedmodes at jed homepage

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, John E. Davis wrote:

>Perhaps "spammer" is the wrong term.  In any case, pages were being
>modified through the addition of links to other sites.  The purpose of
>such links is not to attact anyone viewing the wiki to the specified
>page, rather the idea is to increase the google score of the page.
>
>Removing such links became too time-consuming so I shut it down.
>Perhaps someday I will install another wiki that simply rejects edits
>containing links to external sites.

Link spammers.

It is a common technique. If I remember correctly, google people created
a target="nofollow" tag to be used in untrusted links: links with
such tag do not increase the google score of referred pages.


Massimiliano