The WAR ON SPAM is like the WAR On TERROR... It may never be solved or will NEVER END. All you can do is... (Famous Words)
Hope for the BEST... Prepare for the Worst
(Obama's next words haha!)
Ok I am going to run an Experiment on sort of a TEST Site that is going to be launched soon. I am going to use the Robots Meta Tag: NoFollow from using the Metatag_Manager plugin that is on here. It has a Global Site Setting for the Robots Meta Tag where normally it would be filled in with: index, follow. I have been looking up and reading several things from Google and others about the rel=NoFollow. One thing is I have no idea how to put into any of the plugins. Plugins that should be NoFollow patched are: blog, bookmarks, thewire, files, pages and profile (could be more). So the easiest way possible is to go all the way and change in Metatag_Manager: index, nofollow. This will then place the Nofollow Meta Tag on ALL Pages in the entire Elgg Install. I plan to run this as long as I can and to see if either the Indexing of this Brand New Domain still works and also what I read is possible damage to Page Rank I will see if this new domain stays stuck at Page Rank 0.
I will report all my findings on here and also monitor if any spam accounts are ever created.
So far the new site domain which is MeConfess.com has been indexed by Google just fine and it has the NoFollow Meta Tag
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