Way back in August 2007 I had removed the nofollow attribute from the comments section of this blog to show some link love for my readers who post comments. That did not show up any problems for quite sometime but now it has turned into a problem that I need to immediately take care of. And the problem is an increase in spam comments by almost 500% that results in significant amount of time that I now need to spend
Continue ReadingI was recently invited by Keith of Techie Buzz to do a guest post and I chose this particular topic. In the post, I highlight some of the major factors that will tell you if you have chosen a wrong niche or set of topics to blog. You may want to head over to Techie Buzz and read my post. [tags]Blogging, Blog[/tags
Continue ReadingIf you had missed on my previous post on a trick to increase Alexa ranking of your website and blogs, don’t worry. The new way that I have discovered to increase Alexa ranking is simple and better than the one I had mentioned before and it works without having you install the Alexa toolbar on your system. Increase Alexa rank of your website with Alexa Traffic Rank Button This traffic rank widget allows you to place a Alexa traffic rank
Continue ReadingAre you a blogger who offers full feed to your visitors? If your answer is yes, you are about to discover a very simple way of showing related posts in the RSS feed of your blog. But before we get there, let’s understand what related posts are, why we want to show them in your RSS feed and what purpose will it serve in the future. What are related posts? The posts which have been placed in the same category
Continue ReadingI guess every blog faced it, faces it and will continue to face the spammers menace. They seems to be everywhere, spamming every blog that gets created. I spent last few days looking at what kind of messages people post in the comments section, which eventually gets taken care by the great Akismet plugin my blog trusts upon. There are rare incidents when a spam comment bypasses the watchful eyes of Akismet and gets posted until I take care of
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xFruits is a web 2.0 service, still in beta, that comes with a very low learning curve to understand what it does and how to use it. The home page of xFruits will tell you, in less than a minute, about its capabilities and features it currently offers. I like websites that can project about its offerings in very short time. It’s all about organizing your home page. Ok, now back to xFruits. xFruits is a free online service that
Continue ReadingOk, 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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