{"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. Deterrent techniques are not working; there will always be some small percentage of &#8220;unprotected&#8221; sites that the bad guys are happy to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>Adding insult, even after I moderate posts, the links <strong>still<\/strong> have nofollow applied (by default in WordPress). Later, I&#8217;m going to post some analysis on how and why nofollow fails. If you have any ideas, post them in comments below. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My earlier nofollow 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. Deterrent techniques are not working; there will always be some small percentage of &#8220;unprotected&#8221; sites that the bad guys are happy to exploit. Adding insult, even after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microformats","category-standards","category-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}