WordPress: Spam comments on my blog are down by 90%

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 [...]

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Blog Hacked - Paying the price for not upgrading WordPress

I don’t remember which version I installed first when I started this blog back in Nov’06 but I followed the upgrade cycle with every release till 2.1.1. I became a bit lazy and did not follow the security exploits news that kept circulating on net about WordPress security exploits with version 2.1.1 and few other [...]

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A New Look for BlogHash

Over the last couple of weeks I had been busy working on a new template for BlogHash and finally it’s ready. If you are reading this post from your RSS reader, visit the home page once and take a look at the new theme of Bloghash.

Why did I do it myself?
In the last few months [...]

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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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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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How embedding a video can fail the XHTML validation of your web site?

If 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 [...]

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SEO Tip for Blogs - Show Popular Posts on Home Page

I wanted to implement this since very long but did not made enough efforts to show the most popular posts on my home page to gain some search engine ranking benefits. Recently, I read a post from Matt Cutt’s blog and gone through his presentation on SEO tips for bloggers and one of the blogs [...]

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