Are you receiving tons of spam comments on your blog and spend a lot of time filtering them manually? I have recently installed a plugin that has taken care of the spam comments on my blog for ever. The plugin is called Simple CAPTCHA that adds a image based verification to the comments section of a blog. This has helped me a lot and I highly recommend that you also install this plugin on your blog and spend your productive
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
Continue ReadingIf you have been happily embedding videos from Youtube and other popular video sharing web sites into your blogs and sites, you should know that it can fail the XHTML validation of your site or the page that is embedded with the video clip. That’s true! I had never thought about it but discovered it accidentally when as a part of my monthly website checkup, I tried to validate my site for XHTML 1.0 Transitional and it failed poorly. Looking
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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.
Continue ReadingOf late, I have come across many posts and articles mentioning the top 10 WordPress plugins and I don’t want to be left behind. This post will show you some of the best and top WordPress plugins that will enhance the functionality of your WordPress blog. Core Functionality WordPress Plugins [Akismet] – It checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key [Free] to use this
Continue ReadingI spent over an year working on getting the pages of my other websites indexed in search engines, and in process I discovered many tricks and techniques to get most out of search engine optimization and get my pages indexed in search engines in a short time. [I launched this website on 1st Nov'06, and doing a search in Google, MSN or Yahoo! using site:www.bloghash.com will make things clear to you]. Having committed numerous mistakes in attempt to get my
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