http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Fri, 25 May 2012 14:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-9041 Big IDEA » feed2js spam update Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:50:38 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/#comment-9041 [...] Since my original post about feed2js spam, a couple of complementary solutions appeared. Alan fixed the code to strip <script> tags in the HTML output. I believe that’s only part of the solution, however, since the links to the spam site are still in the HTML and google will interpret your site as actually linking to the spam site, thus increasing its rank. Earl from the U of Saskatchewan provided a diff that will address this issue by adding the rel=nofollow to link tags, causing google not to follow those links. The diff is provided here, untested by me: [...] [...] Since my original post about feed2js spam, a couple of complementary solutions appeared. Alan fixed the code to strip <script> tags in the HTML output. I believe that’s only part of the solution, however, since the links to the spam site are still in the HTML and google will interpret your site as actually linking to the spam site, thus increasing its rank. Earl from the U of Saskatchewan provided a diff that will address this issue by adding the rel=nofollow to link tags, causing google not to follow those links. The diff is provided here, untested by me: [...]

]]> http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-8952 Quentin D'Souza Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:34:57 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/#comment-8952 Thanks for this code update. It is much appreciated! Thanks for this code update. It is much appreciated!

]]> http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-8926 Emily Horning Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:16:19 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/#comment-8926 Thanks for the heads-up. We'll take care of the Yale library one. Thanks for the heads-up. We’ll take care of the Yale library one.

]]> http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-8923 Stephen Downes Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:18:07 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/08/30/spam-redirection-embedded-in-feeds/#comment-8923 Yeah. It was crap like this that caused me to close my referrer service. Yeah. It was crap like this that caused me to close my referrer service.

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