Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Wikis: The Next Frontier for Spammers?

[Jon <d9...@na...>]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:34:45PM -0400, Steve Wainstead wrote:
> Nothing new here except a higher profile for the idea...
>
> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/04/wikis_the_next_frontier_for_spammers.html

If the goal of the spammer is higher google pagerank you could just
force every link outside the wiki to a redirect script something like
this:

 http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/redirect?http://www.veryniceproduct.com

or using google itself like described here:

 http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/13/linkRedirects
 http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/05/11/approved

It looks a bit ugly and sometimes you do want to make normal links,
but I guess it wouldn't hurt if this was enabled by default. It would
probably mean a lot less spammers if they knew not to even bother with
phpwikis.

-- 
Jon Åslund