06.06.07
Posted in blogging
at 9:15 am
I new website called Review Back has launched that allows people to swap reviews. They are releasing it into Beta today. It is designed to be an alternative to ReviewMe and other Pay Per post sites. I think it is a good idea. Just make sure you trade links with people in the same area you are in. It does not have to be a competitor. It can be a site that offers something in the same area but a different vertical than you do.
By the way this is not a traded review. I just did this on my own.
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03.30.07
Posted in Google, Tutorials, blogging
at 7:00 am
There is a nice plugin that help you do “noindex, nofollow” to certain pages to remove lots of duplicate content. These plug ins don’t cover pages that are not in WordPress. Here is an example WordPress robots.txt.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /rss/
Disallow: /comments/feed/
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: /date/
Disallow: /comments/
I went from 100 pages in the supplemental to 9. This is not for all blogs. Some blogs have different URL’s. Check your supplemental index by typing
site:domain.com –view ***
This will show the pages you have in the supplemental index.
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03.02.07
Posted in blogging
at 4:58 pm
I was just at www.mybloglog.com and noticed that I have the option to add my flickr photos to the picture section of my profile.
Technorati Tags: mybloglog, flickr, pictures, profile
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Posted in blogging
at 12:11 am
Update: 3-04-07
You can change line 24 in the plugin from:
if((is_single() || is_page() || is_home()) && (!is_paged())){
to
if((is_single() || is_category() || is_page() || is_home()) && (!is_paged())){
and that will put your category pages in Google. This plugin is very simple and can be modified very easily.
I just installed the Wordpress Duplicate Content Cure. Wordpress creates lots of different pages that are very similar or completely the same. What it does is put a “noindex,follow” tag on these pages.
Be carefull with this plugin it can hurt your rankings. It is very common for a blog to rank for category pages. This plugin will remove all pages other than the ones you create. It will remove the category pages from google. Category pages rank well in Google because you end up with a pretty high keyword density and the internal linking. I am not recommending this plugin just testing it out. I may end up making some changes to it. I think it is a good idea just knocks out a bit too much.
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01.22.07
Posted in Google, blogging
at 11:05 am
I spoke about the rel=”nofollow” tag a while back and thought I would talk about other bloggers using it. Many SEO blogs are still using rel=”nofollow”. I understand why Matt Cutts uses it. He works for the company that is trying to convince bloggers Google is trying to do something for them. But why are all the major SEO’s using it. They either use it or flat out don’t allow url’s or have some fancy redirect to do the same thing. Some even have posts about how stupid and useless nofloow is. rel=”nofollow” is not the solution. What they need to do is install proper spam detection like spamkarma and there are many good CAPTCHA programs out there. I know many of these people and they all to this day complain about comment spam. SEOMoz even made a big deal about how they use rel=”nofollow” because some of their commenter’s were linking to bad sites. It is funny that all they were worried about was what Google thought of them linking to these bad sites and not their readers. We still have to see these bad links. Obviously the rel=”nofollow” has not helped them at all. It is very simple to take off of your blog. There are at least 2 plugins that work great for wordpress. (plugin1, plugin2) If you guys are reading this please install one of these.
Here is a list of people that still show rel=”nofollow” or some other method to not link to people like redirects. The ones with *’s are the ones that have spoken out against rel=”nofollow”. Not all of these are SEO blogs some are blog written by SEO’s on some other subject.
www.seobook.com
www.jimwestergren.com
www.seomoz.org
www.seobythesea.com
www.seologs.com
www.webguerrilla.com
www.jensense.com
daggle.com
www.wolf-howl.com *
www.seroundtable.com
www.ewhisper.net
www.oilman.ca *
www.davidnaylor.co.uk
www.goodroi.com
www.stuntdubl.com
searchengineland.com
This is not a comprehensive list.
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01.17.07
Posted in Tutorials, blogging, reviews
at 4:51 pm
I have made a lot of changes to my blog lately and I wanted to update some of the things I have done to protect my blog and things I have done to improve it. The most important thing I did was update to wordpress 2.0.7. After what happened to Graywolf I thought it was best to keep on top of wordpress updates. I noticed the other day that somebody came to my site with the term
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