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A comment on Ask HN: Why do spammers comment on blog posts if links are nofollow?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why do spammers comment on blog posts if links ar... by im3w1l on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:42PM (#31288961)
Google has stated officially that they do consider nofollow nowadays (but they treat the link differently, in a non-specified way) https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/09/evolving-n...
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Re:Ask HN: Why do spammers comment on blog posts if links ar... by im3w1l on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:32PM (#31291389)
To clarify: they do use nofollow links for ranking and crawling (but differently somehow)
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