[wp-hackers] WordPress Leaks PageRank?

[Mathias Bynens]

> 
> User-agent: *
> Disallow: /
> Allow: /rss


What the?? 


On 03/09/05, Roy Schestowitz <r at schestowitz.com> wrote:
> 
> _____/ On Sat 03 Sep 2005 08:04:26 BST, [Amit Gupta] wrote : \_____
> 
> > Firas D. <fd at firasd.org> wrote:
> > | Also I think the point of the disdain for nofollow is that the
> > spammers
> > | really don't care what the search engines are following or not
> > | following, they're gonna keep spewing their stuff via bots anyway
> >
> > yeah, that's right. Even if you don't link directly to any URI's in
> > comments & link them via a redirector script, the spammers hardly care,
> > I bet they don't even know, they just have a list of
> > websites/blogs/forums which they feed into their bots & start spamming
> > them. :(
> 
> Two of my blogs still respect the "no nofollow" mantra. Until not long ago 
> I
> came to witness spam coming to an /almost complete halt/. So, it was fair 
> to
> conclude that spammers did not 'snatch' any opportunities. It is hard to 
> come
> up with a search engine criterion for 'blog that honours all links' unless 
> the
> blog explicitly states something to that effect in its body.
> 
> More recently, spam bounced up again to a lump of 50-100 a day. It does 
> not
> appear as if spammers have time (READ: will bother) to check if 
> rel="nofollow"
> is embedded. As a matter of fact, you can get rel="nofollow" links 
> highlighted
> in red if you install the SearchStatus extension for Firefox, which is
> worrying
> when you think of spammers. Before I got it installed (version 1.9 or
> later), I
> had to highlight text and "View Source Selection", which is hard if you
> inspect
> an entire page that is filled with links.
> 
> has anybody noticed the following:
> 
> http://del.icio.us/robots.txt
> 
> I was a little curious this morning, that's all...
> 
> Roy
> 
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Mathias
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