Independent newspaper allowing spammers to leave dofollow links 6
Posted on
August 11, 2009 by
Malcolm Coles
Most sites allowing user-generated content don't allow people to leave links, or nofollow them.
The Independent newspaper website takes a unique approach and allows spammers to leave keyword-rich links to spam sites - wth no nofollow. Here are some examples ...
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Bizarre, doubt it'll last long though. If they get spammed hard enough it'd be interesting to see if they get an automatic penalty.
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I thought it might be recent but found a page in google cache from a month ago.