I was browsing around MyBlogLog and noticed that John TP had his url stated as http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.johntp.com.

My first thought that came to my mind was ‘Sneaky!’ but then i quickly remembered how much i hate Alexa. Alexa ranks have always been hugely unreliable from the very start of its existence and i still hold that opinion. I now think that this is a great idea. Im not one for encouraging people to manipulate or enhance their rankings on sites. Quite the opposite infact.

However, the more people who highlight how fallible Alexa…

…..and all those spammish link train derivatives.

Take the ‘U Comment, I Follow’ campaign for example. If you read my article a few days ago entitled ‘Do you want to remove the ‘No Follow’ tag from your Wordpress Blog?‘, you will know that i am not a 100% devotee.

In short, the campaign is to remove the ‘nofollow’ tag from commentators links so that google will follow the website addresses of those who comment. I was reluctant to even discuss this again however i have read about it on several blogs…

I was a little reluctant to comment at first with my name attached to this website as i wanted to work on content before doing anything along the lines of promotion. With the site slowly approaching its 100th post i now feel more comfortable taking part in some discussions as i think that the site now has enough articles to encourage people to come back.

In the space of a week i have not only got addicted to commentating, i’ve also saw the benefit of taking part in discussions on other…

Ive been meaning to join MyBlogLog for a while but never got round to it. I found a great site im sure you’ll ll like called JohnTP. SilentBits, another site im sure you’ll like, uses a theme released by John. John’s site shows the latest readers of his blog via MyBlogLog. I soon noticed that a lot of great blogs use them including Darren at ProBlogger.

So i decided to give it a try tonight and i must admit, it’s way better than i expected.
I wish i had joined this ages…

I found this great little article about increasing blog traffic and i thought id share it. It was written by randfish on SEOmoz.

I don’t agree with everything he says though. He says that you shouldn’t open up comments until you have upwards of 100 RSS subscribers and/or 750 unique visitors per day. I suspect he believes that a blog post which isnt open to comments looks better to one that is but doesn’t have any. I prefer to keep them open - you never know, you might get the odd…