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		<title>Follow The Link</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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If you followed this post over from Blogging For Noobs, then you know this mornings story.  The summation is I found a potential spamback link in my comments at the Celebrity Rumors and decided to follow it with due diligence before allowing it.  it was a spamback, but it had [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you followed this post over from <a href="http://bloggingfornoobs.com/what-is-blogging/where-should-i-comment/">Blogging For Noobs</a>, then you know this mornings story.  The summation is I found a potential spamback link in my comments at the <a href="http://www.theotherblog.net">Celebrity Rumors</a> and decided to follow it with due diligence before allowing it.  it was a spamback, but it had links to a wealth of good sites worthy of showing you.  Here they are.</p>
<p>While not the most important thing in a theme, the color scheme is certainly the first thing noticed by a visitor to your blog.  This handy little <a href="http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html">color scheme picker</a> will help you come up with an appropriate scheme quickly and easily.</p>
<p>I also found this three part series on usefull css code snippets.  Part <a href="http://tutorialblog.org/25-code-snippets-for-web-designers-part1/">1</a>, <a href="http://tutorialblog.org/25-code-snippets-for-web-designers-part2/">2</a>, <a href="http://tutorialblog.org/25-code-snippets-for-web-designers-part3/">3</a>.</p>
<p>This is a nice graphically based use of <a href="http://www.schillmania.com/projects/dialog/">rounded css corners</a> complete with free graphics and code.  The size they give you could easily work as a background image for your blog page.</p>
<p>This <a href="http://www.cssjuice.com/13-online-generators-for-web-20-design/">Web 2.0 Generator</a> link page had a lot of great links for theme builders as well as just general bloggers.<span id="more-160"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://wpthemes.info/">Sadish Bala</a> had some interesting links and advice of his own on his blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emilyrobbins.com/how-to-blog/">Emily Robbins</a> hasn&#8217;t updated her blog, How To Blog, in along enough that I consider it abandoned, but that doesn&#8217;t stop the old stuff from being worth reading.</p>
<p><a href="http://designdisease.com/">Design Disease</a> has some great themes of their own for free.</p>
<p>I also found a really nice site, Web Designer Wall, with some recent articles on using <a href="http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/how-to-css-large-background/">large image backgrounds</a>.</p>
<p>My limited programming knowledge didn&#8217;t make the next site very useful to me, but the more I am learning about Wordpress code, Devlounge&#8217;s article on <a href="http://www.devlounge.net/articles/php/how-to-write-a-wordpress-plugin-introduction">how to write a wordpress plugin</a> is where I am going to start reading.</p>
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		<title>The Guest Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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In the early days of web design one of the few interactive things you could do with your readers was set up a guest book.  At first this was next to impossible because almost anyone and everyone who had a website was operating on free sites like Geocities, Angelfire, [...]]]></description>
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<p>In the early days of web design one of the few interactive things you could do with your readers was set up a guest book.  At first this was next to impossible because almost anyone and everyone who had a website was operating on free sites like Geocities, Angelfire, or Tripod.  There was no cgo access unless you paid for it, so there was no interaction beyond the simple mail form.  Eventually most of them had heard the call for interaction and offered up ready made guest books. By that time it was really too late to do anything about it, blogging had been invented and was taking quick hold on sites like LiveJournal and <a href="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</a>.  The world of interactivity was upon the average website owner, and we went from simple users to publishers.</p>
<p>The advent of blogging with threaded post and comments we respond to or at the very least should be responding to left behind the old guest book format.  Users could now interact with authors directly over on subject specific ideas.  Simply put the guest book was stiff, bereft of use, pushing up digital daisies, had run down the curtained screen saver, had emptied the recycle bin with ccleaner, overwritten multiple times with randomized ones and zeroes, and joined auto-starting background midi files as things Skippy should never put on a site.  The guest book was and ex-webpage!  That was until I figured out a use for it.<span id="more-122"></span></p>
<p>I know you are thinking this guy is ought of his bloody mind.  Well I might be, but never the less I know how to make the guest book useful once again.  Every blogger gets comment like &#8216;this is nice&#8217; and &#8216;I like the post&#8217;.  For those of us kind bloggers using a dofollow system this is annoying crap.  However with a nofollow guest book and a <a href="http://www.zirona.com/software/wordpress-move-comments/">move comments plugin</a> we can preserve those comments, because some of them actually mean what they say and could give a damn about the backlink, and keep our blogs from being fodder for spammers.  The second plugin you will want if you wish to keep dofollow status is a <a href="http://yoast.com/wordpress-noindex-specific-posts-and-pages/">conditional plugin</a> that allows for conditional nofollow noindex posts and pages.</p>
<p>Once you have your plugin installed you can start by creating the guest book.  If you are a nofollow blog the process is pretty simple, just create called guest book add a few lines of text and stick the post link in your menu.  Alternately if your theme allows for comments on pages you can make it a page and it should automatically go into your navigation structure.  Assuming you are a kind dofollow blogger honoring your readers comments, you are going to need to do a few things differently for the guest book to work like it should and not screw up the rest of your blog.</p>
<p>After activating the plugins the next thing you will want to do is make a copy of your single.php and rename it guestbook_template.php.  This is the file we will edit.  Top the top of this file you will want to add the following code:</p>
<p>&lt;?php<br />
/*<br />
Template Name: guestbook<br />
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?&gt;</p>
<p>Once this page is uploaded create a new page using the guestbook page template.  Say a few words of kind warning about the kind of comments that should go in posts and the kind that belong here.  Set the page to nofollow and noindex and you are ready to go.  Move your comments at will and enjoy your new found guest book.</p>
<p>Post 8 of 100 of <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.bradstinyworld.com%E2%80%9D">Brad’s Tiny World</a> Scribefire Challenge.</p>
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		<title>5 WordPress Plugins That Drive Comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading time: 3 &#8211; 5 minutes
The biggest means to increasing regular readership is involving your occasional readers through a better comment experience.  These five pugins will do just that if you do it right.
1) Nofollow Free:  Without going nofollow free few small blogs have a hope in hell of drawing lots of comments straight out [...]]]></description>
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<p>The biggest means to increasing regular readership is involving your occasional readers through a better comment experience.  These five pugins will do just that if you do it right.</p>
<p>1) <a href="http://www.michelem.org/wordpress-plugin-nofollow-free/"><strong>Nofollow Free</strong></a>:  Without going nofollow free few small blogs have a hope in hell of drawing lots of comments straight out of the box.  You will get some spam, but nothing worth having comes without a little bit of work.  there are easy ways around this too.  Akismet will block most spam.  Moderated comments will hold all of them until you can look at them.  You can also moderate them so regular commentators can post without moderation. You can also set it so the nofollow doesn&#8217;t kick until you have X number of approved comments.  At the very least the  plugin writes <strong>&#8220;Comments links could be <a href="http://www.michelem.org/wordpress-plugin-nofollow-free/">nofollow free</a></strong>&#8221; to the end of the comment form, and this is a popular Google search phrase.<span id="more-87"></span></p>
<p>2) <a href="http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/"><strong>CommentLuv</strong></a>: This is one of the best ways you can reward your visitors.  CommentLuv will give a title and link to the latest blog post of the commentator.  This deep link will help them in the Google rankings.  It also makes you a popular destination spot.  Once again you can get some comment spam, but that is trivial as having a link directly to their website paints them as an asshole should you choose to publish it.  The same rules for moderation apply with <strong>CommentLuv</strong>.  This plugin also adds <strong>&#8220;Enable <a href="http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/">CommentLuv</a> which will try and parse your last blog post</strong>&#8221; which is another popular Google search phrase.</p>
<p>3) <a href="http://meidell.dk/threadedcomments/"><strong>Brian&#8217;s Threaded Comments</strong></a>: This plugin requires a little bit of work.  You have to replace your themes <strong>comments.php</strong> with the provided <strong>comments.php</strong> before activating the plugin.  This is a simple matter and you will likely want to edit the plugin itself through the <strong>WordPress Plugin Editor</strong>.  I find the default border color and width too light to really stand out and show the threads, but it is an easy fix.  This plugin also moves the trackbacks and pings to the bottom of the post rather than intermingling them with actual comments.</p>
<p>4) <a href="http://www.damagedgoods.it/wp-plugins/quoter/"><strong>Quoter</strong></a>:  With <strong>Quoter</strong> you and your readers have the ability to both quote article text, but other comments.  If you run a hotly contested blog like politics or other charged subjects you almost certainly will want to use this with some sort of comment moderation.  It is powerful, and like the others has the power to be misused.  This is just one more instance where you need to actually work your blog rather than thinking you can sit back and do nothing.  Quoter is another plugin that will require you to add a bit of code to the <strong>comments.php</strong>.</p>
<p>5) <strong><a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/"title="Visit plugin homepage" >Subscribe To Comments</a></strong>: This plugin makes it easy for people to track new comments by email of posts they care enough to comment on.  &#8220;<strong><small>Subscribe to comments via email</small></strong>&#8221; is another Google search phrase popular with people looking for blogs to post on.</p>
<p>All in all you have to ask yourself do you want people who are searching for places to comment?  My answer is most definitely.  There will be some assholes who leave spam, but most people are going to read the article and post something relevant to avoid linking their name and blog with spam activity.  Not everyone who searches for these terms will comment on your blog if it isn&#8217;t interesting so you must have good content.  in the end you really have to decide what level of commitment you your blog and its readers you want to have.  If the answer is very little you probably should just quit blogging.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Those were the words I heard often enough at as kid when I was being cautious.  I heard them from friends who tried to goad me into trouble making either with or for them. I heard them from many a male relative who simple mistook caution for timidity and [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Those were the words I heard often enough at as kid when I was being cautious.  I heard them from friends who tried to goad me into trouble making either with or for them. I heard them from many a male relative who simple mistook caution for timidity and didn’t really know what else manly they could say.</p>
<p>Now that I am older and wiser those words keep coming back to me.  No, they don’t pertain to my blogging for the most part.  When they do I shudder with revulsion and take action.  This time though they apply to a lot of my fellow bloggers.  So I say unto many of you, “Quit Being Such A Pussy!”<span id="more-85"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.forward-moving.com/blog/2006/10/12/spam-a-battle-worth-fighting/"><img class="attachment wp-att-86 alignleft" style="float: left;" src="http://bradtheblogboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/spam2-150x150.jpg" alt="spam" width="200" height="170" /></a>Most bloggers want their blog to be a source of income, a business if you will, but they won’t treat it like one.  Almost every time Firefox highlights a comments section with <a href="http://www.zigire.net/2007/01/09/wordpress-and-relexternal-nofollow/"><strong>nofollow</strong></a> tags, I shake my head in wonderment.  These people just don’t get it.  They are letting timidity or laziness get in the way of their business’s goals.  The most often heard response of why they won’t turn it off is they don’t want the hassle of dealing with comment spam.</p>
<p>If you are getting a few hundred comments you don’t need to remove it, because some other part of your business model is working really well.  That is a different story altogether, they are offering such high quality or value that they can get away with offering nothing else to their customers.   Everyone else, that claims they want to make money, need to quit being pussies and take off their <a href="http://www.niftygaloot.com/2008/01/31/commentluv-dofollow-and-nofollow-free/"><strong>nofollow</strong></a> tags for comments.</p>
<p>Here is why you need to do it from a small/new business perspective.  If you keep the <strong><a href="http://www.dailydomainer.com/200781-to-follow-or-nofollow.html">nofollow</a></strong> tags and aloofly say “I don’t want to deal with comment spam,” this screams you are just lazy and don’t care about your customer.  It also puts you in the arrogant beyond belief category thinking you are so important you will spend more than a few minutes cleaning up spam a day. Your blog readers are your customers.  They might only come to browse, but if they comment they are leaving the store with the crap you are selling.</p>
<p>If they leave a botted comment that akismet picks up, they shoplifted and your auto-theft system picked them up and hauls them away no trouble for you.  If they left a “Hi, this was interesting,” comment they bought the cheapest thing they could. Maybe they meant it or maybe they didn’t.  <a href="http://saltwaterc.net/xhtml-video-embed"><strong>Nofollow</strong></a> tags on those mean you took their money, scowled, and didn’t bother to even say thanks with a smile.  In fact if you are moderating your comments you probably said “Fuck You!” and hit the spam button.  Whether they meant it or not you have alienated them, by playing king of the sandbox and acted like a six year old bully.</p>
<p>Then there are the customers who really mean something to your business.  These are the ones who give good relevant comments.  You don’t have to remove the nofollow links the first time.  You can use <strong><a href="http://www.pastymuncher.co.uk/why-i-dofollow-say-no-to-rel-no-follow/">Nofollow </a></strong>Free or some other plugin and make it several comments if you like.  You should of course have a page marked <a href="http://myseoblog.net/2008/05/05/make-your-blog-a-dofollow-and-attract-more-visitors/"><strong>Nofollow</strong></a>-<a href="http://www.madwahm.com/wordpress/i-dofollow-do-you/"><strong>DoFollow</strong></a> Policy and let them know your posting policy. It is no different from a brick and mortar store posting the return policy or “we will prosecute shoplifters” sign.  By removing the nofollow tags you are saying: “I thank you for making my blog better.  I appreciate your comments and am willing to do a little work in the area of spam control to keep them coming.  Here is your reward.”</p>
<p>If you want your blog to be a business, then you need to start acting like it is a business and treating readers like paying customers.  Put out quality merchandise.  Post your store policies.  Say thank you to all of your customers.  Honor the really good customers.  Last, but not least, don’t be a pussy when it comes to doing a little work.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Link Note:  The links on this post all go to good people who have the <a href="http://trcoach.com/2007/08/16/u-comment-i-follow/"><strong>nofollow</strong></a> tags removed.  They understand the value of doing this, so don&#8217;t screw with them by leaving spam.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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BlogBoy doesn&#8217;t often make political stands when it comes to the online world, but this is one that can&#8217;t be ignored.  There isn&#8217;t a blogger alive who doesn&#8217;t need to consider freedom of speech issues in fact.  In Yahoo news this morning they write about public online spaces [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/7753843@N02/2505160337"title="Omphalos" ><img style="float: left;" title="Belly of The beast" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2350/2505160337_12db6069a7.jpg" alt="The freedom to show yourself for who you are" width="300" height="376" /></a>BlogBoy doesn&#8217;t often make political stands when it comes to the online world, but this is one that can&#8217;t be ignored.  There isn&#8217;t a blogger alive who doesn&#8217;t need to consider freedom of speech issues in fact.  In Yahoo news this morning they write about public online spaces not having the same freedom of speech rights as say your public park.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080706/ap_on_hi_te/tec_disappearing_freedoms">&#8216;Public&#8217; online spaces don&#8217;t carry speech, rights</a><br />
&#8220;Companies in charge of seemingly public spaces online wipe out content<br />
that&#8217;s controversial but otherwise legal. Service providers write their<br />
own rules for users worldwide and set foreign policy when they<br />
cooperate with regimes like <span id="lw_1215391845_1" class="yshortcuts">China</span>. They serve as prosecutor, judge and jury in handling disputes behind closed doors.&#8221;</p>
<p><span id="more-76"></span>That might sound ominous and horrible, just like everything that the Bush administration has done for the last seven years, and in a way it is all of that.  On the other hand that is the nature of doing business.  Suffice it to say blogging is a business or at least you should be thinking of it as such if you ever plan to make money.</p>
<p>These companies be they <a href="http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2008/07/06/why-myspace-is-evil/">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://aralbalkan.com/1404">Yahoo</a>, <a href="http://sodevious.net/2008/07/06/google-adsense/">Google</a> or even your own hosting company all have an image to maintain.  If you associate yourselves with them and threaten that image they have every right and not to mention a responsibility to their stock holders to maintain that image even if it means pissing off a paying subscriber.  That is called risk management, the world revolves around it.  Yes, sometimes it seems unfair, but life isn&#8217;t fair.  If you think life should be fair take your candy ass somewhere else because I can almost bet I won&#8217;t like you or really care what you have to say.</p>
<p>Do you see how that works or get the subtle of what I have just told you?  This space is mine and there is very little you can do to stop me from saying what I want.  if this was <a href="http://www.thatsfit.com/2008/07/04/generation-myspace/">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://scottishtoryboy.blogspot.com/2008/07/politicians-and-facebook.html">Facebook</a>, or <a href="http://codezeror.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/livejournal/">LiveJourna</a>l I could could still get away with telling you to &#8216;go fuck yourself&#8217;, however there are plenty of places I couldn&#8217;t and keep my account very long.  Just as i could get  away with  saying what I would like to do to <a href="http://theotherblog.net/celebrities/cat-deeley-pic-spam/">Cat Deeley</a> or Kourtni Lind  on those same places, I couldn&#8217;t tell you the same thing about the teenage girl who lives across the street.  Not that she interests me in the least, I could tell you what  I would like to do to her on my my own blog if I had such an interest.  While I don&#8217;t have an unlimited ability to say those things because of the agreement I have with my hosting company, it certainly lets me go a lot farther than any community blog will.</p>
<p>Now if I wanted to write twisted  perverse stories about the girl, i am pretty sure I couldn&#8217;t get away with that very long with Host Gator, especially if I used any sort of details.  More precisely, I could until someone told on me and my account just disappeared.  I am not willing to run that risk, even if I do get daily backups of all my databases and have every post stored locally for all of my blogs.  I like the price I pay for hosting and get good service, so my risk management assessment says no to cute blond mid teenage girl meets thirty something blogboy who turns out to be the sperm donor that gave her life porn stories.  There are hosting companies that would let me host that and wouldn&#8217;t even bat an eye because it is tame compared to some of what people post.  Those companies have made risk assessments too, and charge you accordingly.</p>
<p>When it comes right down to it if you are a blogger and want to say what ever the hell you want, there are some rules you need to pay attention to.  First unless your speech and ideas are very tame, you risk losing an account almost anywhere you go.  If you want to say what is on your mind pretty much unfettered then you need to get yourself a domain account with a good hosting company, click the Host Gator ad to your right for a really good deal.  Lastly if you are going to publish what amounts to porn, get a hosting company that specializes in and allows it.</p>
<p>Before you say you shouldn&#8217;t have to put up with a company interfering with your right to say what ever you want while using there service it is time to ask yourself if you want to be called a hypocrite.  If you blog and use any sort of spam filter or moderate comments you are censoring another person&#8217;s speech.  Know the game, know the rules and know that you will always be playing by someone else&#8217;s rules&#8230;</p>
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There were several old combinations that worked well together but since WordPress 2.3 came out many of them stopped working properly or stopped working altogether. Fear not there are replacements out there. Unlike many of the regurgitated idiot lists currently out there, everything I list will work in WordPress 2.5 [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There were several old combinations that worked well together but since WordPress 2.3 came out many of them stopped working properly or stopped working altogether.<span> </span>Fear not there are replacements out there.<span> </span>Unlike many of the regurgitated idiot lists currently out there, everything I list will work in WordPress 2.5 the only version of the blog software you should be running.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ultimate Tag Warrior hasn’t been supported by the author since WordPress 2.3 came out. Many of its features and those of Bunny’s Technorati Tags, Jerome’s Keywords, and other tagging programs are easily replaced in better plugins. <span> </span>The All in One SEO Pack can even be replaced now.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The new power plugin combination consists of Headspace2 and Simple Tags. Between these two plugins you can hand every task that you used to require half a dozen plugins and tweaks.<span id="more-62"></span><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simple Tags takes over most of what was done by most of the old tagging plugins did.<span> </span>While it alone doesn’t do everything UTW did that can be handled by Headspace2.<span> </span>There are two more tagging plugins you may wish to consider as options.<span> </span><a href="http://gormful.com/projects/wp23-technorati-tags/">Gormful’s Technorati Tags</a> will give you another formatting option.<span> </span>Tag This will allow users to add/suggest tags at will or with the parameters you set.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/">Headspace2</a> while a more complicated option than the much love All In One SEO Pack, is simply a <a href="http://knowledgeconstructs.com/tag/headspace2/">more powerful tool</a> and one you would do well to learn.<span> </span>Mani at the Daily SEO Blog has a very good <a href="http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2008/03/seo-green-version-101-updated-and-some-headspace-tutorials/">tutorial on Headspace2</a>.<span> </span>He also confirms my suspicion if you are using Google XML Sitemaps you can’t use both Headspace2 and AIOSP without causing plugin clash. <span> </span>This video will give you a nice look at Headspace2.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The two standard plugins most people list and I will confirm is the default Akismet for spam control and Google XML Sitemap plugin for indexing.<span> </span>Both of these are pretty standard among power WordPress Bloggers because they work.<span> </span>There are other options like GT Site Crawler that may be better for indexing your site if it contains more than just a blog.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next problem one faces with their blog is linking.<span> </span>In my opinion if you are using a good spam plugin like Akismet and practice good comment policy like requiring name and email and a previously approved comment then turning off the nofollow will gain you more than you lose in time.<span> </span>I have used the <a href="http://kimmo.suominen.com/archives/2005/02/dofollow/">DoFollow</a> plugin for some time but have just recently started looking at the more customizable <a href="http://www.michelem.org/wordpress-plugin-nofollow-free/">NoFollow Free</a>.<span> </span>Either way you go the plugin works well in WP 2.5, but don’t use them both.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">Once you decide which nofollow plugin to use.<span> </span>You need to think about how the nofollow and duplicate content affects your SEO.<span> </span>To clue you into this plugin I give you the words of Andy Beard the plugins creator.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">“This plugin is intended to be used in advanced linking structures such as those described in <a href="http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/wordpress-seo-masterclass-for-competitive-niches.html">Wordpress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">Rather than blocking duplicate content pages, they can be used to your advantage…. (NFTD) has a method of channeling &#8220;Google Juice&#8221; away from pages that are receiving the majority of links, to pages that you wish to rank well, and also to your homepage to enhance monetization.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">For the record I recommend <a href="http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/wordpress-seo-masterclass-for-competitive-niches.html">Wordpress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches</a> wholeheartedly.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span> </span>WordPress comes with the Tiny MCE editor, but the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/">Tiny MCE Advanced</a> plugin will greatly expand the functionality to almost the point of being as good as MS Word for features.<span> </span>The good thing is depending on the kind of blog you run most of these features are useful and easily added or removed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The next three are really optional plugins, but I have included them because of how useful they are.<span> </span>First as a writer and avid reader I like two spaces between sentences. This is what you get with the <a href="http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/extra-sentence-space/">Extra Sentence Space</a> plugin from Coffee to Code.<span> </span>The <a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/disable-wpautop/">Disable wpautop</a>, removes WordPress’s automatic paragraph formatting.<span> </span>This is useful for those who wish to have more control of elements from their style sheet.<span> </span>Excerpt Editor does a great job auto-generating your excerpt and can easily be customized.<span> </span>This is important for your front page SEO and channeling Google Juice to the right places.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Along with post style controlled<span> </span>from your style sheet I believe that most of your image and video styling should not be plugin control, but rather be a function of either WordPress’s native image/video functions or controlled from your CSS.<span> </span>There are a few image video plugins that I do find handy though.<span> </span>The only Image related plugins I use at the moment is <a href="http://blog.japonophile.com/flexible-upload/"title="Visit plugin homepage" >Flexible upload</a> and <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/"title="Visit plugin homepage" >SEO Friendly Images</a>.<span> </span>Flexible upload handles some of issues that were present in 2.5’s first release.<span> </span><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-image"title="Visit plugin homepage" >SEO Friendly Images</a> takes care of some of the extra bits like image description and alt info automatically.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Last but not least important are your social plugins.<span> </span>The first one to mention is the LiveJournal Cross Poster (LJXP) I am hosting the hacked version of this that is friendly to both 2.3 and 2.5 installs.<span> </span>If you still have friends there or want to simply post excerpts with links back into some of the promo communities this plugin will be your best friend. You can also download the excerpts from LJ and post them to any number of other blogs easily enough.<span> </span>I aggregate all 4 of my blogs LJXPs on WordPress.com.<span> </span>You can also snatch the HTML code from the LJ post and post it to a fair number of other blogging communities like Blogger and MySpace.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(There is a MySpace crossposter but I have never made it work and no one I have ever met has been able to either.<span> </span>If anyone gets it to work please let me know)<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span> </span><span> </span>The next group of social tools includes <a href="Twitter%20Tools">Twitter Tools</a> which is very good about posting your blog post updates to twitter, but it sucks for posting your tweets on your blog.<span> </span>For tweet posting I prefer <a href="MyTwitter">MyTwitter</a> which will allow you to hard code your tweeting and place it anywhere you want on your blog.<span> </span>You can also use the hard coding methods described on your Twitter account.<span> </span>The one thing you do need to know about twitter tools and the 2.5 widget layout.<span> </span>You have to uninstall the plugin or change themes to remove the widget.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span> </span>The plugin I feel you almost certainly need to have if you are a serious blogger is a social bookmarking plugin.<span> </span>I prefer <a href="http://sharethis.com/index">Share This</a> for two reasons.<span> </span>One it has a small footprint and can be hard coded for exact placement.<span> </span>Secondly it has tracking available for your blog.<span> </span>If you want a bigger selection of Social Sites on hand, especially if you are using non US English sites I suggest using <a href="http://push.cx/sociable">Sociable</a>.<span> </span>You will have a bigger footprint and its gaudy but it gets the job done.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span> </span>The last plugin in the category I want to mention is <a href="http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/11/09/auto-social-wordpress-plugin/">Auto Social</a>.<span> </span>This handy little plugin will automatically submit your posts to Del.icio.us for you using all your own tagging information.<span> </span>It makes a powerful end of day digest post when you combine it with the Del.icio.us Thingy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span> </span>There are some site specific plugin for Digg, Sphinn, Reddit, and Technorati.<span> </span>I however think it is far better to hand code these links for better layout control.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">In the end there are other tools and new ones will come along, but with this list you can quickly turn an ordinary blog into a power blog</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">How to Get Inbound Links from Government and University Sites   by Dr. Deepak Dutta</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">The inbound link is the holy grail of web traffic. Getting inbound links from government and university sites is a testament to the quality of your site.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">You accumulate inbound links not only to increase traffic, but also to establish your site for providing high value to visitors. However, getting inbound links by link exchange or buying text links is not going to get you anywhere. You need to abandon those archaic ideas and jump forward with an inbound link strategy that provides high value authoritative links.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">To obtain high value authoritative links, your site must provide high values to its visitors. Original authoritative articles and tools to solve everyday problems are a few ways to provide a lasting value to web surfers. Before you embark on your link-building mission, create something valuable.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">Links from the government sites have very high value. If your site enables citizenry to interact directly with the government, it is an excellent candidate for a link back from the government site.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">Sites that provide community level services, for example location of Social Security Offices in the USA with interactive maps, will also have high potential for outbound links from government sites.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">Other types of sites that do well are sites that provide information about service performance, for example, a nursing home comparison site; sites that cross inter-governmental boundaries; and sites that allow transactions with the government, for example, filing taxes.<span id="more-56"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">If your site is a good fit for outbound links from government sites, start with usa.gov site. It is a central information hub for everything government. On the bottom of the page, you will see About Us and Contact Us links. Read their linking policy by clicking on the About Us before you contact them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">You don’t have to confine yourself to the US government sites only. Explore the possibilities of getting links from foreign government sites also. But keep in mind that your site should provide some values to citizenry of those countries and people wanting to do with them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">For example, most government embassy sites don’t display their embassy addresses in interactive maps. If your site pulls their addresses displayed in simple texts in a web page and place those addresses on Google maps for interactivity, you can contact them to put a link back to your site. Explain to them that your site adds additional value to their visitors by providing richer user experience.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">College and university sites provide a good opportunity to develop some authoritative inbound links. The key here is to provide services geared towards students. You may also be able to get links if a faculty member is interested in your contents.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">Don’t start spamming university forums, guest books, etc. People may attack your site and bring it down, report to your web host company or domain registrar. You will lose your credibility and reputation. Try to establish relationship by helping others. Let them know that you know your topics and are willing to share with them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">If your site provides some valuable services to students, approach the appropriate university authority for linking. For example, if you have a tool that compares student loans from different sources and suggests the good ones depending on a student’s financial situation, university loan office will be willing to link to your site as a resource.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">If you have a blog with original and regularly updated contents that talk about impact of the technology on the society, you may approach a faculty in sociology to link to your site from his or her home page located in the university server.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;">Government and university sites provide good opportunities for developing inbound links if your website has a match with their requirements. The key to that is quality contents and useful web tools. Once you meet their requirements, it is worth pursuing these entities for spreading your website links to them.</p>
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		<title>New WordPress 2.5 Plugins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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I hit the jackpot on good plugin finds today for all you junkines. This morning I found myself sitting face to face with a site called Coffee 2 Code and a long list of WordPress 2.5 compatible plugins. I won’t go through the whole list but here are the ones [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hit the jackpot on good plugin finds today for all you junkines.<span> </span>This morning I found myself sitting face to face with a site called <a href="http://coffee2code.com/">Coffee 2 Code</a> and a long list of WordPress 2.5 compatible plugins.<span> </span>I won’t go through the whole list but here are the ones you can bet will find their way into my blogs very soon.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Auto Hyprelink URLs.<span> </span>It does just what it says by coding any plaint URL from your post or comment into a clickable link.<span> </span>While this has the potential for abuse with spam, it does mean you can remove the linking feature from the comments that might redirect someone elsewhere.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->HTML Special Character Helper.<span> </span>I don’t this very often, but when I do I really hate looking it up in an external program.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Post to Post Link.<span> </span>While this is easily done with some preplanning normally, the description makes it look even simpler.<span> </span>I haven’t gone through the full trial on it, but it looked too good not to mention.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Extra Sentence Space.<span> </span>As a novelist, this is one of those things that really, really bugs me about writing online.<span> </span>I see single spaces between a period and the next sentence and I want to correct it, which is bad because I have been web authoring before we were even calling it the web so I should be used to it, but I’m not.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Obfuscate <span> </span>Email.<span> </span>This is another one I really don’t need since I already use another method to prevent harvesting.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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We all know it and we all hate it, and believe it or not we have all participated in it to some degree as internet noobs.  There are several ways to deter spam on a blog.  First is the use of plugins, I like Askimet WordPress.  it [...]]]></description>
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<p>We all know it and we all hate it, and believe it or not we have all participated in it to some degree as internet noobs.  There are several ways to deter spam on a blog.  First is the use of plugins, I like Askimet WordPress.  it works really well and used by most of the big name bloggers so that is good enough for me.</p>
<p>The second place to deter spam is with email.  if you are a pro blogger you need to have your contact information out there.  It is your internet business card and people need to access it.  There are some nice forms that will do, but those are only a partial solution, because unless you are able to program it to accept attachments, links, etc it doesn&#8217;t have the functional range of email.  Posting your email address openly though is a call for spammers, and while many companies like Yahoo and Google do a good job at filtering it for you others don&#8217;t.  I have found the javascript code below however works very well and keeps bots from collection your email, yet displays it just like it would a normal link.</p>
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&lt;script language=&#8221;JavaScript&#8221;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;</p>
<p>var name = &#8220;your_name&#8221;;</p>
<p>var domain = &#8220;your_name.com&#8221;;</p>
<p>document.write(&#8216;&lt;a href=\&#8221;mailto:&#8217; + name + &#8216;@&#8217; + domain + &#8216;\&#8221;&gt;&#8217;);</p>
<p>document.write(name + &#8216;@&#8217; + domain + &#8216;&lt;/a&gt;&#8217;);</p>
<p>// &#8211;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p>
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<p>I didn&#8217;t write the code but I have been using it for years and can tell you that it does work when it comes to bot harvesting.  it doesn&#8217;t stop assholes from giving it out and listing it elsewhere but nothing does and you just have to live with that if you want to play this game.  Check the header and you will be able to see it in action.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Akismet This is the best in spam control there is hands down.
Ultimate GA (Google Analytics) You can use the Google Analytics services without this plugin, but frankly why would you want to.  It makes the service so much easier to use and, even better will write a lot of [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://akismet.com/"title="Visit plugin homepage" >Akismet</a> This is the best in spam control there is hands down.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oratransplant.nl/uga/">Ultimate GA</a> (Google Analytics) You can use the Google Analytics services without this plugin, but frankly why would you want to.  It makes the service so much easier to use and, even better will write a lot of the code into your blog for you.  This is a 5 star plugin and a must have.</li>
<li><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/">HeadSpace 2</a> is the best all around meta tool there is.  It is a little harder to get setup than the All in One SEO Pack but it is a far superior plugin.  Mani at <a href="http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2008/03/seo-green-version-101-updated-and-some-headspace-tutorials/">Daily SEO</a> has a really great post about getting it set up right using one of his themes, but the principals are the same no matter what theme you use.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/">Google XML Sitemap Generator</a> is the best tool you can have for getting indexed quickly and efficiently.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin/">CommentLuv</a> by FiddyP is a sure fire way to get your readers involved by providing not only a link back to their site, but assuming they have an accessible feed it will post a link to their latest post too.</li>
<li><a href="http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/11/09/auto-social-wordpress-plugin/">Auto Social</a> is a sure fire way to make sure your posts get to Del.icio.us  Every post you makes gets submitted with your post tags.  If you couple this with the post thingy that will put all your daily tagging into a single post auto post it to your blog, then you are in good shape to have a daily wrap up of everything you are doing online.  See <a href="http://bradsotherblog.com">The Other Blog</a> for an example of how I aggregate this feature.</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags"title="Visit plugin homepage" >Simple Tags</a> This is a plugin that has been around a long time, but one that is rather new for me.  It is in a word complete tag management and may eventually displace my use of <a href="http://gormful.com/projects/wp23-technorati-tags/"title="Visit plugin homepage" >Technorati Tags</a> once I learn to use it to its fullest extent.<a title="Visit plugin homepage" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags"><br />
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<li><a href="http://sharethis.com/"title="Visit plugin homepage" >ShareThis</a> Bloggers are foolish not to include multiple ways for people to add their posts to their favorite social bookmarking sites.  I like Share this because of its tiny footprint, just a small green square that expands when clicked on.  If you use Socialize which is probably the other one you have seen a lot of I suggest keeping the number of sites manageable and fixing the plugins ss so you have 100% opacity.<a title="Visit plugin homepage" href="http://sharethis.com/"><br />
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<li><a href="http://gormful.com/projects/wp23-technorati-tags/"title="Visit plugin homepage" >Technorati Tags</a> When set up right will use WordPress&#8217;s native tagging feature to create Technorati tags and provide the appropriate links back to Technorati.<a title="Visit plugin homepage" href="http://gormful.com/projects/wp23-technorati-tags/"><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/tinymce-advanced/"title="Visit plugin homepage" >TinyMCE Advanced</a> Last but not least getting a hold of this dynamic plugin will help you control your content far btter than the native posting interface.  it is like going from MS Wordpad to the latest and Greatest version of Word in terms of features.<a title="Visit plugin homepage" href="http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/tinymce-advanced/"><br />
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