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 [...]

How much time have you spent on MySpace today? How about Facebook, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Squidoo, MyBlogLog, Bumpzee, or LiveJournal? That’s a lot of social networks to be on, but how many of you have accounts with all of them? I’m sure I’ve missed a few and I’m also certain that some of you may argue [...]

This is a question I’ve wondered about since the idea was suggested to me by a reader. The idea is to use Alexa redirects on the internal links on your blog in order make sure that all the traffic to your blog is counted by Alexa. On the surface this sounds like it might be [...]