[WikiEN-l] Off-article linkspamming

[Ilmari Karonen]

A wrote:
> I have noticed an emerging trend for linkspammers to spam their sites on
> article talk pages, user pages and user talk pages, especially after failing
> to get their spam placed in an article itself.

Well, if they do, they're no gaining much by it, at least not in terms 
of PageRank.  All external links on talk pages have the rel="nofollow" 
attribute set, which means they are not counted by search engines.

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Ilmari Karonen