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Removed the nofollow attribute from the comments section of this blog

Ok, I have done it! After doing an analysis on the number of spam comments when the rel “nofollow” attribute was not implemented and after it was, I have removed the “nofollow” attribute from the comments section of this site. I did not find significant difference in volume of spam comments and that does not make any sense to implement the “nofollow” attribute and deny any link credit to my valuable readers. If you have made comments in this blog

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Simple Tagging Plugin for WordPress: Highly Recommended

If your blog is on WordPress and are looking for a tagging plugin, look no further. Simple tagging plugin by Michael is a great plugin for tagging your posts and works very well with WordPress. This plugin is based on Jerome’s Keyword’s Plugin but is extended with more features and is much easier to work with when compared to Ultimate Tag Worrior (UTW) plugin. Is Tagging better than using Categories? Yes! Tagging provides with many advantages that categories can not.

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linkify: A Great Bookmarklet Tool for Blogging

If you are a blogger who does lot of linking to other blogs and websites, linkify, by Laurence, is a must to have tool for you to ease the task of creating links in your posts. After you add linkify to your browser, all you have to do is highlight the text in the textarea that you want to create a link for and click on linkify in your browser. It will then pop-up a small window (see the snapshot

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Matt Cutts WordPress Blog has been Hacked!

Matt cutts is currently the head of Google’s Webspam team and frequently blogs on his site. I am a subscriber to his blog and use Netvibes to read the RSS updates from various sites and since yesterday the blog of Matt cutts was showing up an error message in Netvibes. I initially thought it be to a network related problem due to which Netvibes was not able to reach his blog site but it was only when I typed his

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Launching My Second Blog Site – InsideWH – A Web Hosting Insider

It gives me immense pleasure to announce the launch of my second blog – InsideWH (A Web Hosting Insider) with its sole focus on web hosting industry and the areas relevant to it. The reason to pick web hosting as the sole topic for blogging is due to the 7+ years of experience that I have with the hosting industry. In my previous job roles, I had the opportunity of helping clients from various companies to choose hosting solutions based

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WordPress and Website Owners Do You have Directory Listing Enabled?

Call it my negligence or anything else but since the day I setup this website, I did not care to go back and check if I had taken care to disable directory listing on all the folders in my website. For those who are wondering what Directory Listing is, a simple explanation could be that with Directory Listing enabled, your web server will list or show all the files and folder within a folder that does not has an index

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Tip: Determine Best Ad Format Based on Source of Traffic

Getting to know the best ad format can dramatically improve the overall performance of the Ad program for your site. Let it be Google AdSense, Yahoo YPN or any other Ad program, the same trick applies to all. The performance of your ad units, in terms of CTR, directly depends on the source of the traffic from which visitors visit your site for various reasons. The primary sources from which you receive visitors on your site are: Search Engines –

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