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Advice for Nofollow Bloggers

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Like this blog, I've noticed a growing trend of bloggers removing the rel="nofollow" attribute from their blogs which essentially encourages users to comment on posts without loosing what might be a valuable link to their own site. However, as some people including myself have found out, this drasticallyincreases the level of spam following each of your posts. At first I accepted this and simply deleted them from my moderation panel before they were allowed to be set live, but after a while this became a very drawn-out and exhausting process. The answer is definately an anti-spam challenge that each user must ... Read Article »

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Google XML Sitemap for Wordpress

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

If you're interested in optimizing your blog, you can make it much easier for search engines to crawl by adding a sitemap written on an XML page. The standard way of doing this involves creating a static XML page by taking a snapshot of your site at one time. However, the Google XML Sitemaps Generator for Wordpress will create an excellent quality sitemap for you which dynamically and automatically updates whenever new pages or posts are added to your blog. Take a look at mine: http://www.adammoss.co.uk/sitemap.xml It is downloadable as a simple plugin which just requires activation and submission from ... Read Article »

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A ‘nofollow-Free’ Blog

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I happy to announce that this blog is now free of any nofollow comands that used to prevent Google and other search engines from influencing the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. This meant every comment prior to this was effected and potentially worthless as a link. This won't encourage spam though as I'll still remove anything which I don't like. You can find out more about the DoFollow plugin for your blog or download it directly here: sem-dofollow (zip) Read Article »

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