What do you make of this PageRank hullabaloo?

Even the less observant amongst us wont fail to have noticed the recent disquiet emanating from the blogosphere concerning that little green bar we all love to hate. One minute it’s down, the next it’s up, leaving many bloggers in something of a stir.

For the benefit of those oblivious, here’s a quick recap:

At the end [...]

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DoFollow: is it really worth it?

This weekend I have been the victim of a wave of comment spam. In the space of 50 minutes one individual left a bout of comments. All were relevant to the topic of the posts although identifiable as spam as none of the comments were particularly deep or engaging - ie, one or two sentence [...]

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Lets all join the DoFollow revolution

Over the past few months I’ve witnessed a quiet movement gain momentum and transform into a full-blown revolution. I talk of course, of the DoFollow movement.

By default, WordPress adds the “rel=nofollow” command to all links in comments. In fact, most blogging software does the same thing and the intentions are good - to prevent those [...]

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Join the anti-splog vigilante brigade

Question: What is the difference between this blog posting, and my Top 10 plugins for a WordPress newbie post?

Answer: The first post is owned by a thieving scumbag splogger.

A ’splog’, as defined by whatis.com, is “a fake blog created solely to promote affiliated Web sites, with the intent of skewing search results and artificially boosting [...]

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