…..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…