Started a Wordpress, why are people spamming it?

cooooookies said:

Opinions are different about the value of nofollow links. Many here say "a link is a link".

This is what G writes about it:
In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web. However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without using nofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap. Also, it's important to note that other search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

On the other side, the vast number of (nofollow wordpress) links might be still a good means for G to rank a page. I would not swear that G omits nofollows, but it is really hard to say.

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paincake said:

Remove "powered by wordpress" and change all the text next to comment form and they won't find you. Of course, now it's too late because your blog is already in your lists.

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takeachance said:

I undertake the tedious task of deleting 100+ comments each day from each blog I have from my email inbox as a result of wasteful SB blasts. I did have to laugh the other day though as I saw one of my own SB comments being used to spam one of my sites! Bloody cheek I thought and then I realised I had in fact spammed my own blog!

Still, all my blogs are quality sites non of which are auto approved therefore at least I know my own comments won't get through.....

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