{"id":51,"date":"2006-06-27T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/relnofollow-is-a-failure\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T22:55:58","slug":"relnofollow-is-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2006\/06\/relnofollow-is-a-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"rel=&#8217;nofollow&#8217; IS a failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/is-relnofollow-a-failure\/\">nofollow<\/a> post is now officially the most-spammed blog posting I&#8217;ve ever written. All this despite a moderation system&#8211;the spammers are getting zero benefit from all this. 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