Blog Spam will hopefully go down now that blog developers and search engines colaborated in a way to combat blog spam. By adding the attribute rel="nofollow" to hyperlinks, the spammer’s site will not get an increased page rank with search engines. The big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search) have already signed on to recognize the tag. I am happy. I have been hit by blog spam almost everyday now. I can not wait until WordPress incorporates this fix. Now if we can find a fix for email spam.
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