As I log into the Wordpress admin dashboard for GeekySpeaky, I can’t help but notice all of the incoming links, most of which look like this: Do Follow Blogs Giant List of Do Follow Blogs Do Follow Blogs With PR and so on and so forth Clicking on any one of these links will lead you to a post that links to this blog and all of the other do follow blogs and gives instructions on how to leave a comment for link juice. Most people reading that crap are SO missing the point of this even being a do follow blog, as evidenced by the comments I get here daily....

I found a new Wordpress plugin some of you may be interested in, that’s sort of a way to take dofollow to the next level. The CommentLuv plugin will display the last post of the commenter within their comment. The plugin visits the site they’ve inputted into the URL field, and scrapes the last post made, and displays the link at the bottom of the comment they’ve left. I don’t think I’m going to implement this on any of my blogs, since I’m already pretty hot and heavy with dofollow, but figured I’d throw it out there...

I’ve found a new plugin that will help me to continue blocking comment spam on my blogs, and make using the D-list and do follow plugin a little easier. Delink Comment Author is a new plugin that makes removing a URL from a comment a one click process. Sometimes, the comments I get are horrible, and it’s completely obvious that they’ve been left to take advantage of my dofollow links. Other times, it’s more a gray area - a great comment, but a link to a mortgage site, or a dog training school. Up til now, I’d been editing...

Despite some people (who I refuse to link to) attempting to sabotage blogs using “do follow” by selling others comments on those blogs, I’ve not removed the do follow plug-in from any of my blogs. I’m extremely vigilant in deleting / moderating comments however, and I’ve been known to edit the email / URL from a great comment before approving it. That eliminates that commenter from being able to get his next comment automatically approved, but still allows their thoughts to appear here. If you’d like to join the list...

I put out a plea 2 days ago for help in getting 2 PHPBB mods installed on the forum here. Ok, ok, you got me. When I said “help”, I meant not “assistance”, but “I tell you what I want and hand over my passwords in a real trusting fashion and you do all of the work”. I had 3 offers for help, and went with the first guy who replied. Bucky, also known as The West Virginia Blogger, installed those mods in record time for me, one on his lunch break, and the other in the wee hours while I was still sleeping. He even included...

I came across an entry on Bloggers R Us about a great plugin for Wordpress called Optimal Title. Always interested in improving my search engine results, I read the entry and decided to immediately implement it on my blogs - so far, I’ve added it to this blog and Simple Kind Of Life. The whole process takes about 2 minutes, and the results should be worth it. As Eve pointed out in the article, instead of having your blog appear in Google or other search engine results with your blog title first, and THEN your post title, like this: GeekySpeaky >>...

The D List I started, of blogs using the “Do Follow” plugin, has taken off like crazy. The entry has 54 comments and trackbacks right now - a new record for this blog! I wanted to address a few questions I’ve seen asked more than once though. When you install the plugin, you won’t see any changes on your blog. It will look and act the same. There are no plugin options for the do follow plugin. If you want to verify it’s working, go to an entry with comments and view source - search for “nofollow”. You won’t...

I’ve been using a plugin called Do Follow on my blogs for months. You may not know that when you leave a comment on a WordPress blog, a “no follow” tag is automatically inserted so that the link is NOT spidered by search engines. I know a lot of people out there love to leave comments in hopes of increasing backlinks, but you’re spinning your wheels if you’re doing it on blogs that aren’t using Do Follow yet. When you add a Do Follow plugin (there are few different ones to choose from!) to your site, it strips the nofollow...

My friend Julie and I were talking about Google Sitemaps this week on the new GeekySpeaky forums. She was amazed that I was able to get my blogs indexed, and that they all are PR4, without ever making a Google sitemap for my blogs. What can I say? Dumb luck strikes again. Once Julie posted this neat plugin for generating Google sitemaps on Wordpress blogs, I was hooked. I immediately installed it and set it up on ALL of my blogs. It was incredibly easy to use and I hope that it will help to give me a boost with Google. I’d like to see the PR...

Solo Technology makes the “pro” list for upgrading to Wordpress 2.1 a bit longer. There are extra editing options available if you hit alt-shift-v (Firefox) or alt-v (IE) while using the Wordpress WYSIWYG editor. According to an entry on Digg, you can also use alt-shift-n to spell check entries. Technorati Tags: Wordpress 2.1, wordpress, wordpress upgrade, easter eggs, WYSIWYG