﻿<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>InstantASP Community Forums / Old Forums / InstantForum.NET 3.x / Suggestions &amp; Requests  / Initiative to halt comment spam... / Latest Posts</title><generator>InstantForum.NET v4.1.4</generator><description>InstantASP Community Forums</description><link>http://community.instantasp.co.uk/</link><webMaster>sales@instantasp.co.uk</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:58:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title>Initiative to halt comment spam...</title><link>http://community.instantasp.co.uk/Topic4443-31-1.aspx</link><description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a target=_blank href="http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html"&gt;http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Basically, you get these people who post thier links in your site in hopes of boosting thier own page rank on the search engines. Google has identified a need to block these links from getting credit in the search engines and has setup a tag that thier engine will use to ignore such links.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The blog community is worst hit on this so its started there but I would have a look at it and see if this isnt something that could be implemented into the IF forum as well.&lt;/P&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2005 23:39:12 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Mark Christianson</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>