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This is a simple test post for the Nofollow hack I wrote.
The testing is now complete, and I can announce that I have fixed the problem with unquoted Blogger variable tags. Pretty simple.
Will post the solution later this evening. Thanx for you patience on this matter.
The testing is now complete, and I can announce that I have fixed the problem with unquoted Blogger variable tags. Pretty simple.
Will post the solution later this evening. Thanx for you patience on this matter.
Labels: blogger, blogspot, comments, nofollow, removal
Filling in the comment forms for blogs can be tedious. Name, email, website over and over again. Some blogs will remember the information for you if you have submitted at least one comment, but if you like to spread your comments into new territory -- then it becomes laborious.
Greasemonkey scripts are perfect for this type of pain. The Pre-Fill Comments script will auto-complete the fields for author, email and Url and put the focus on the comment textbox itself. While this was designed to work for WordPress blogs, it should work with other blogs that use the same ID's for their fields. Even so, I think a little tweaking under the hood (if you are good with that type of thing) may extend it to other types of blogs.
Via Techie Buzz
Technorati Tags: greasemonkey, script, pre-fill, form, comments, wordpress
Greasemonkey scripts are perfect for this type of pain. The Pre-Fill Comments script will auto-complete the fields for author, email and Url and put the focus on the comment textbox itself. While this was designed to work for WordPress blogs, it should work with other blogs that use the same ID's for their fields. Even so, I think a little tweaking under the hood (if you are good with that type of thing) may extend it to other types of blogs.
Via Techie Buzz
Technorati Tags: greasemonkey, script, pre-fill, form, comments, wordpress
Labels: comments, form, greasemonkey, pre-fill, script, wordpress
John Chow has developed a DoFollow plugin to selectively remove the rel="nofollow" extension from comment links, in which he is offering for your comments at $10 a month. He also has a plan to sell the plugin and/or set up an affiliate program to peddle the gimmick.
Yes, I said gimmick and you will also notice that I emphasized the term "paid" in this post title too.
There are quite a few reasons why you should not buy into this scheme. Anyone who does will just be throwing their money away. This is no more beneficial to the subscriber than tits on a boar.
Let's say you "rent" your comment link for a few months. And remember, it is rent. If you don't pay it, you get evicted and NoFollow is taking up residence on your sofa.
Links will not pick up any juice right out of the gate either. Once they "stick" for any duration, then they may give you some benefit. But looking at a page with close to 200 hardcoded links without any comments, how much value will that be? And once it does stick, it will be buried in the archives and off of page one.
Comment links are not the same as site-wide links. Site-wide links will overpower your comment link without even lifting a finger. Chow's site has approximately 3,140 pages indexed by Google. By his admission, a site-wide link costs $240 a month -- do the math, that is only 7.6 cents per link. How many comments will you have to make to bring your margin down.
If you look at this gimmick in the right light, John Chow is not really selling you the NoFollow removal. You are paying him to comment. John is fully aware that you will be commenting (or not) on a daily basis just to get your link in there. This is reverse pay-to-comment mentality.
Lets talk about that plugin a little bit. This would be a first wouldn't it -- a WP plugin you would have to actually buy? This goes against the grain of WP itself doesn't it?
The selling of the plugin is far more evil than duping some of John's more ignorant readers into the link renting. And I wouldn't doubt if some pissed off blogger hacks the plugin and offers it up on one of the more popular download sites.
But John better revise that plugin to include the microformat rel="paid". After all, they are paid links and Google's Matt Cutts is looking very closely at them. That goes for the site-wide links too.
There is a mechanism in place via the Google webmaster console to report paid links. Albeit, it is not an official one and is being run through their spam reporting system. Currently the main purpose of reporting is so that Google can augment their existing algorithms.
And what does Matt think about paid links?
I think I will just end this with by agreeing with Matt. 'nuf said.
Yes, I said gimmick and you will also notice that I emphasized the term "paid" in this post title too.
There are quite a few reasons why you should not buy into this scheme. Anyone who does will just be throwing their money away. This is no more beneficial to the subscriber than tits on a boar.
Let's say you "rent" your comment link for a few months. And remember, it is rent. If you don't pay it, you get evicted and NoFollow is taking up residence on your sofa.
Links will not pick up any juice right out of the gate either. Once they "stick" for any duration, then they may give you some benefit. But looking at a page with close to 200 hardcoded links without any comments, how much value will that be? And once it does stick, it will be buried in the archives and off of page one.
Comment links are not the same as site-wide links. Site-wide links will overpower your comment link without even lifting a finger. Chow's site has approximately 3,140 pages indexed by Google. By his admission, a site-wide link costs $240 a month -- do the math, that is only 7.6 cents per link. How many comments will you have to make to bring your margin down.
If you look at this gimmick in the right light, John Chow is not really selling you the NoFollow removal. You are paying him to comment. John is fully aware that you will be commenting (or not) on a daily basis just to get your link in there. This is reverse pay-to-comment mentality.
Lets talk about that plugin a little bit. This would be a first wouldn't it -- a WP plugin you would have to actually buy? This goes against the grain of WP itself doesn't it?
The selling of the plugin is far more evil than duping some of John's more ignorant readers into the link renting. And I wouldn't doubt if some pissed off blogger hacks the plugin and offers it up on one of the more popular download sites.
But John better revise that plugin to include the microformat rel="paid". After all, they are paid links and Google's Matt Cutts is looking very closely at them. That goes for the site-wide links too.
There is a mechanism in place via the Google webmaster console to report paid links. Albeit, it is not an official one and is being run through their spam reporting system. Currently the main purpose of reporting is so that Google can augment their existing algorithms.
And what does Matt think about paid links?
... link sellers can lose trust, such as their ability to flow PageRank/anchortext. Also, we’re open to semi-automatic approaches to ignorepaid links, which could include the best of algorithmic and manual approaches.
I even mentioned earlier this year that paid articles/reviews/posts should be done in a way that doesn’t affect search engines.
As someone working on quality and relevance at Google, my bottom-line concern is clean and relevant search results on Google. As such, I care about paid links that flow PageRank and attempt to game Google’s rankings.
I think I will just end this with by agreeing with Matt. 'nuf said.
Labels: blog, comments, dofollow, google, john chow, links, nofollow, paid