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Originally Posted by Dean C

Not to criticise your modification but I'd say this was a poor way of implementing this. As soon as you put no follow on the links it'll:



Also your addon will mean google will not try to index the page. Maybe I'm missing something here but why on earth would you not want the search engines to index your page. The only usage for this will be on blog comment pages. Just because a spambot sees your link having rel="no follow" inside of it will not mean it won't spam the email.

*seethes at criticism*

But seriously...it's not spambots that are 'targeted' by this hack, it's the Spammers that send them out.

The theory goes that if people were to implement this idea, there would be no reason for the Spammers to send out the bots in the first place. At least, it removes the advantage of having PR from the sites they are spamming be added to their site.

How would you go about implementing this?

regarding the addon: I don't know why he is suggesting to have noindex in the header of each page...not something I would do myself.