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I have been conducting a poll on this site regarding the use, or should I say, the removal of the nofollow attribute from the comment area on this website. And so here are the results so far: 40% – YES! Remove the nofollow! 20% – NO! Keep the nofollow! 40% – What is nofollow? So [...]

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If you’re like me, you’re not satisfied with just maintaining the content of your website. I mean, for me at least (and you’re just like me, right?) , I must control much more of my websites than just the contents. I need to be able to delete my server logs at times, and other areas [...]

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The author of this post, “More Hipocrisy By Google – Nofollow?” takes detailed reports and research, and the combination of those equal calling Google a hypocrite. He also backs up his research with the “evidence” he’s found. I stand firm on my stand that you as a webmaster should not bend over to Google’s will [...]

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While the practice of making sure your navigation and website’s usability it’s not incredibly new, the thought of it does hinder some designers. I mean, let’s face it…usability research, accessible compliance regulations – it all seems kinda boring. And to those Photoshop web designers, who would rather create a site in flash than make sure [...]

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Latent Semantic Indexing. Cool sounding term. Now, before I get into what it actually is…can you imagine how smart you’ll sound when you use that term with your friends, as they discuss web technologies? But I digress… Here’s the definition of LSI use from SEOBook.com (taken from http://www.seobook.com/lsi/lsa_definition.htm): Latent semantic indexing adds an important step [...]

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And you thought you were safe? Are you using WordPress as your CMS, well if so please read this: Hidden base64 code redistributed with public WordPress themes opens the backdoor for unsuspecting WordPress users. Highly recommended that WordPress themes not be download from galleries like WP Sphere. Check your WordPress theme source for suspicious code. [...]

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I am a regular reader of WebProNews.com and avid fan. However, I had to comment on an article by one of their staff writers, Kara Ratliff. It’s on “Building Links Like an Expert“. I’ll quote the comment I do not agree with: “…most of the search engines frown upon paid linking. There is no smile [...]

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Funny title, I must admit. But if you are a regular contributor to this site in the form of commenting, then I have a great deal for you. I have installed the NoFollow-Free plugin, which allows the removal of the nofollow attribute that WordPress automatically generates for comments and author links. Remove the nofollow tag [...]

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I just got 20MB download and 2MB upload speeds from my new broadband carrier. Yes, I’ve heard of the horror stories about Comcast, but I got such a killer deal on their high speed internet and phone service, that I had to jump on it. I actually pay less that I did for simple long [...]

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The recent Google PR buzz has really done tons to offer “link bait” – but that’s not why I’m writing this post. You see, many webmasters have such a “PR head” about them, that it becomes the ONLY thing they check daily…”what’s my PR today?” Do you know what I do everyday? I track the [...]

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