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Current Crop of Plugins

11.Jul.07 | 14 Comments

I think I might have a somewhat painful addiction to plugins — whenever I see one that looks interesting and I just can’t resist giving it a try. Many come and many go, but here’s the current crop.
Warning: I have a ton!

Show Top Commentators — I added this one just today. Since I’m no [...]

*sigh* Welcome Back rel=nofollow

10.Jul.07 | 14 Comments

Back in February, I excitedly announced that I was getting rid of the rel=nofollow stuff on comment links.
April rolled around and I excitedly “joined” the I Follow movement with a spiffy badge.
Towards the end of May, I voiced some concerns about abuse.
A few weeks later in June, I hit the abuse topic some more.
July 1 [...]

Small Adjustment to My "No nofollow" Policy

05.Jul.07 | 13 Comments

As mentioned several times, I’m a “do follow” blog. Long story short, I don’t feel that commenters’ links should be marked as “rel=nofollow.”
Until today I have been using the slick DoFollow plugin by Kimmo Suominen. That plugin allows a bit of a time delay before removing the nofollow attribute which is helpful in the [...]

31 months later

01.Jul.07 | 14 Comments

Just over two and a half years ago I made my first enthusiastic “Hello World” blog post. I was naive and eager and ready to make my mark on the world. A lot of the posts from my first 9 months are long gone as I didn’t bother to save all of them when I [...]

More on the Potential For DoFollow Abuse

10.Jun.07 | 23 Comments

I’m still not changing my mind: Getting rid of “rel=nofollow” on comments still feels like the right thing to do. However, I’m noticing more and more discussions about it that are food for thought.
A couple weeks ago, I touched on this and mentioned the disturbing trend of “seo types” listing out dofollow (the [...]

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