Years ago when I was a newer blogger, I was introduced to the idea of allowing my comment links to be followed by search engines. This was done by way of the WordPress DoFollow plugin. This was the opposite of the default behavior of WordPress blogs, which is to mark the links left by commenters [...]

An awesome guest post from the enigmatic Snoskred, a blogger from New South Wales in Australia with a blog on many and varied subjects. Early in November of 2006, I heard about NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month. Unfortunately it was too late for me to get in on the action as I had already [...]

I’ve been using Akismet to fight comment spam here on FreshBlogger and I have to say that it’s working great. Out of the literally hundreds of spam comments this blog receives each day, only one or two make it through to moderation, if any. Considering the absolute deluge of spam, this is a pretty good [...]