It’s time for DoFollow comments to GO

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. [...]

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How to know if you are blogging on a wrong niche?

I 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 [...]

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Another simple way to increase Alexa ranking of your website

If 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 [...]

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Increase Traffic to Your Blog by Showing Related Posts in RSS Feed

Are 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 [...]

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Why do spammers spam blogs?

I 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 [...]

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xFruits: Compose your Information System

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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