Weekly Link Dump Three
Thank goodness the cold I had is finally gone. This threw me out of whack last week and I am still trying to get back in the groove of things. Until then, check out some of these links to good reading I found within my feedreader.
13 Ways to Promote Your Next Blog Post
Helping in the WordPress Forums is an Education
41 Internet Marketing Tactics – Take the Poll
Is removing the nofollow tag from comments a good idea?
Using Customer’s Sales Objections to Sell More
After you’re done reading, come on back and lets talk about one or more of the articles listed above. I think the topic of removing nofollow from comments may be a good place to start.
9.16.08
Thanks for the link Jeff. The nofollow debate is something I have followed but I have to give credit to SEOAly as her decision to remove the nofollow tag for a while was the inspiration for the post
9.17.08
No problem Kevin, I’ve been a subscriber to your stuff for quite a while. To be honest, I’ve actually disabled the DoFollow plugin on my own WordPress blog as an experiment to see if I would stop receiving stupid comments which looks like they were made, just to be published on the site with the DoFollow attribute attached to them. So far, I haven’t seen the amount of spam going down. I wonder if that is because it takes awhile for my site to stop showing up in those software programs which lists sites that have NoFollow disabled?
9.17.08
A few people have actually said the same so perhaps I have a skewed view. When I removed it I had a huge influx of spammers and generally the quality of comments went way down. Have you promoted the fact that dofollow has been removed from your blog? I think this plays a big factor.
9.18.08
Not yet as I wanted to perform the experiment behind the scenes and then report back the results. It has only been a week since I turned them off and I’ll wait one more before I make up my mind.