Yep, getting them down quickly helps.

Google also has a special HTML command, rel="nofollow", that you can put in a link tag, so that it looks like this:

Code:
<a href="somewebsite.com" rel="nofollow"> ... </a>


It instructs Google, "do not count this link when you are adding up the links a page gets." Facebook and other social media sites add this automatically. Some Web forums do too (if I recall correctly, we have FTM set to do this). So spam links here don't add to a Google page's rank.

However, the spammers keep at it, because not all forums and message boards add rel="nofollow" to links.

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