On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 12:19:38PM -0700, Ken Bowley wrote: > > And now for my own option: > > 4) Use a different domain name for the guestbook. If the site is > http://mydomain.com, try using http://guestbook.mydomain.com, and be sure > to put something in robots.txt that tells web crawlers not to index the > guestbook. > > One of the desired effects that the spambots are trying to achieve is > higher rankings in search engines for the sites that they are listing in > the spams by having as many sites as possible linking to them. By > removing the guestbook from the main domain and limiting the webcrawlers > from indexing the site, it makes the guestbook a less desirable target. > You can also accomplish the same thing by making any user added hypertext links rel="nofollow", that way the search engine bots won't follow the link at all. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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