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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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Profy - The casual all-in-one

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I came across Profy today and it really impressed me. It claims to be an 'all-in-one' blogging platform, a haven for bloggers if you like, where a combination of blog posting, social networking and feed reading is combined into one easy-to-use platform. Having watched the demo, it certainly does look easy to use and this leads on from my previous post about who uses social bookmarking. My concerns of casual Internet users being able to use such features were founded on lack of purpose to uses them and lack of mass documentation describing what they are and how to use ... Read Article »

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Who Uses Social bookmarking?

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

You look at any blog post including this one, and you'll see various tags attached around the pages tell you to 'bookmark this', 'sphinn that' or 'make this post a favourite' and I'm sitting here thinking who actually uses all these widgets and why? Digg claims to have over 20 million users, which is quite incredible but who are these users? The idea is that when you bookmark a site or a post, it becomes saved in your profile on the social bookmarking site and most likely shared to other users using the same service. So by making this bookmark, you ... 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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ScribbleLive & Exclusive

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

One of the drawbacks of the current blogging platform is the fact that the content displayed on the page is static - it won't update until you tell it to, by revisiting the page or refreshing the browser. Static content is also a feature of discussion boards and forums which is why it can be difficult to have flowing conversations, especially when posts are made simultaneously. ScribbleLive rewrites the ules of this publishing platform by offering its users the ability to view and manipulate live data over a network. ScribbleLive was given special recognition at Canada's Mesh Conference of the latest ... Read Article »

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