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 [...]

Many of you are users of MyBlogLog and probably already agree with the title of this post. Andy Beard has written an article detailing his own frustrations with MyBlogLog’s New Features and, as usual, I find it hard to disagree. He goes as far as to say that he is leaving any community that makes [...]

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 [...]