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:Yes, I know that is their intent, though in this case as you said, it indexing wasn't the goal, but rather clicking.  I probably should have blanked the page, as I think I have done in the past, but I left it so Cons (who usually deletes on request) or whoever else could see that it really was spam.  I believe someone complained previously when I blanked one, as well, so I didn't want to offend.  I assumed that it would be deleted in a few hours anyway, long before a spider was likely to find it.

:Yes, I know that is their intent, though in this case as you said, it indexing wasn't the goal, but rather clicking.  I probably should have blanked the page, as I think I have done in the past, but I left it so Cons (who usually deletes on request) or whoever else could see that it really was spam.  I believe someone complained previously when I blanked one, as well, so I didn't want to offend.  I assumed that it would be deleted in a few hours anyway, long before a spider was likely to find it.

:nofollow does ask search engine spiders not to follow and index the links on the page.  Usually, they honor this request since if you don't want it indexed, they probably do not either.  However, it does not literately prevent them from doing so.  They can explore and index all they want, even with the tag in place. In my opinion, <nowiki><meta name="robots" content="noindex"></nowiki> should also be temporally applied to new pages, so that if a search engine does crawl CP immediately after spam is posted, it will not even be listed as a page on CP.  Perhaps this concept could even be customized more, so that users with a certain privilege level (perhaps "edit") do not have this applied to their new pages. Of course, this would not protect from spam inserted into existing pages, but it seems to me that this would be better than nothing.

:nofollow does ask search engine spiders not to follow and index the links on the page.  Usually, they honor this request since if you don't want it indexed, they probably do not either.  However, it does not literately prevent them from doing so.  They can explore and index all they want, even with the tag in place. In my opinion, <nowiki><meta name="robots" content="noindex"></nowiki> should also be temporally applied to new pages, so that if a search engine does crawl CP immediately after spam is posted, it will not even be listed as a page on CP.  Perhaps this concept could even be customized more, so that users with a certain privilege level (perhaps "edit") do not have this applied to their new pages. Of course, this would not protect from spam inserted into existing pages, but it seems to me that this would be better than nothing.

:Anyway, back to your point, I probably should have blanked them, and will d oso in the future unless I receive complaints.  Thanks for the suggestion! --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] ^{<small>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</small>} 13:31, 21 July 2016 (EDT)

:Anyway, back to your point, I probably should have blanked them, and will do so in the future unless I receive complaints.  Thanks for the suggestion! --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] ^{<small>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</small>} 13:31, 21 July 2016 (EDT)

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