Tag Archives: links

Is your blog DoFollow? Here are some great images to let your visitors know!

I’ve found a new blogger recently that blogs at ExtremeJohn.com and is giving away free dofollow images for you to use on your blog. Pretty damn cool if you ask me, and the image work is pretty nice too. What … Continue reading

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Keyword Hijacking – What is it and should you care?

After blogging for nearly two years, I find that there are plenty of people out there that don’t have the slightest clue what commentators can do to a post, left unchecked. Much more than that, what they can do to your site overall without some amount of auditing by the site author.

Keyword hijacking in the classic sense is where a blogger creates a post that is outside of their niche in an attempt to drive traffic to a page by means of popular keywords.

Doesn’t sound to bad so far, right? Just read on, take this example for instance: Continue reading

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The value of a link

Links are the currency of the web. It is through links that we find new sites, recommend sites to others, and is what makes the Internet what it is. Without links, what would the web be? A very big digital book, and that wouldn’t be nearly as much fun, would it. Continue reading

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PayPal Shuts Down Gambling and Adult Links on LinkListings.net

I received notice from PayPal today that my PayPal account is frozen until I remove the gambling and adult sections on the LinkListings.net link directory web site. Now, I can understand why they have a policy that states they do … Continue reading

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The importance of using a domain name for your blog

I don’t want to scare anyone, but I’ve been doing some thinking lately.  Since I’ve written about a non-intrusive way to integrate twitter, people have been coming at me from all angles about it.  Seems it’s a little popular with … Continue reading

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Updated BlogML Import Class for WordPress

When you export all your post data from BlogEngine and try to import the data file into WordPress using Aaron Lerch’s BlogML import class, I found that it does not include any of the commentators URL’s, which means all those … Continue reading

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Expose Yourself! Submit Your Web Site To Link Listings Link Directory

LinkListings.net is a link directory site that you can submit your web site into to help your web site get more exposure. The link directory also allows you to submit articles as well. As you are probably aware, Google and … Continue reading

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Using Social Submitter to Promote Your Posts

I’ve been a bad little social whore.   With the number of social sites popping up each week, I’ve been pondering how one might start using these sites to help promote your own site without becoming buried by the sheer number … Continue reading

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Some updates and errata

Well, I’ve been trying to get some things cleaned up around the blog. I’ve been focusing on making some CSS tweaks that, really, should have been done before I kicked out this theme.  But oh well, I have known the … Continue reading

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