This post's title should be "How to remove the evil nofollow tag from comments!" I hope you remember my old posts about "dofollow" tag. This is a tag you add to external links, to show your help to their Page Rank (PR). The more interesting is that to be have a real "dofollow" blog, you have to be "dofollow" in the comments too. I know, the Wordpress blogs structure is "nofollow" by default, to avoid spam, but it's also avoiding giving a help "hand" to your visitors or the ones you admire. I … [Read more...]
NoFollow Tag Is Like a Condom
NoFollow link attribute rel="nofollow" was originally created to block search engines from following links in blog comments, due to the amount of blog comment spamming. In theory, this tag will not help spammers who spams in blog comments, to improve their search engine traffic. Dear friends, this is BS. I think I said more than once that if you moderate your blog comments, you are free to eliminate what you don't like from your comments. Use Akismet if you are on Wordpress and take a deep … [Read more...]
Do Follow
The title says all, don't you think? We sport WordPress, the best blogging platform ever, the open source software at our hands, at a click or two. Of course, to use it, you need your own domain, and this is another discussion altogether :). I'm not sending you outside my blog, but I'm sending you on another tab, because I'm afraid you may accept instantly what is written there, leaving this article unfinished. I'm sure you will be busy working on your new looking blog. So great a pity, you are … [Read more...]