Unintentionally Blank

The MyBlogLog feature of auto joining a community once you had visited it enough times is back. This is a great feature as it gives an organic growth to communities, joining people up to yours if they happen to visit it a number of times but never remember to click to the join the community.

It Half Works

I received an email notification this morning that I had auto joined two communities, Momgadget and The Wrong Advices. Sure enough, they both show up in my communities, but there is no sign of me in their communities.

I appreciate that there is a lot to be done, sorting spam, moving to Yahoo, etc. and I am glad that things are moving forward. I was particularly happy when they put a few more measures in to stop gaming MyBlogLog. I was just sad to see that a previously active feature has been announced again and doesn’t work.

Come on MyBlogLog, I like the service, keep up the good work and sort this out!

In other news, I will be finishing the second part of how to style the MyBlogLog readers list soon, but everything is busy, busy, busy at the minute!

Edit: It seems to have worked now, I am now a member of both the communities I mention. I wonder if there is a time delay on appearing in your communities that you auto joined or if it was a bug that the team have quickly ironed out. Either way, I’m glad to see it’s working now!

Back in February I posted about the growing redundancy of rel="nofollow" and how I had removed it from comments on this blog. This means that when you comment, search engines will recognise your link and give you credit for it in their algorithms.

Recently this trend has been growing and growing and more and more bloggers are installing the plugins to remove this useless bit of code. I don’t know who started this ball rolling, but there is a growing list of people that are joining in. All the bloggers below have removed nofollow from their comments to give you a bonus for your comments and trackbacks:

Continue reading “Removing nofollow Is Now A Movement” »

Over a month ago I signed up to Spotplex, a web 2.0 site that TechCrunch called a better Digg. I gave my own first impressions on the Spotplex service at the time and settled down to see whether it would develop into a useful popularity site, capable of unearthing interesting articles and driving traffic to worthy sites, or whether it would slip away quietly and concede defeat to the already established services. So far it has hardly made a splash, but Spotplex is not giving up just yet as it unveilled two new features to it’s users today.

Continue reading “An Update On Spotplex” »

Google’s webmaster central reports that it is now even easier to tell them where your sitemap is.

All you have to do now is add the following line into your robots.txt file:
Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
Easy as that!

Gack Ink, the bring your own blog network, announced the latest blogs to join.

Welcome to Denise Kincy Grier’s Writing Journey, Home Office Women, Live Life - Organics and Your Health, The Pleasure of Being a Woman, Middle Zone Musings, Grow Your Writing Business and Work at Home Revolution.

Dawud Miracle demonstrates exactly why you should never use “click here” as your link text.

Apart from destroying certain SEO properties of a link and failing no less than two (that I can think off from the top of my head) points in the WCAG 1.0, it makes a post look ridiculous. Thanks Dawud for making it painfully obvious that you should consider your anchor text every time you link.

Win a Microsoft Zune

John Chow, who’s blog helps you make money on the internet, is giving away a 30GB Microsoft Zune. All you have to do is link to it, like this! It’s worth a go!

Hans at Blogosquare is running a competition that allows you to show off your own themes or templates that you have designed and, if you top the voting at the end of the competition, a great prize. The prizes avaliable are:

1. 1 year hosting and a .com domain name as well as a review by TechZonline
2. Flickr Pro account allowing you all the unlimited goodies like unlimited storage on your Flickr account.
3. Mint Stats to track your visitors on your site

If you want to enter, visit the competition page to find out how.

If you don’t want to enter, visit anyway and rate the designs that have been entered. I put in the design for this blog, so if you like it I would really appreciate a few extra votes in the competition.

Good luck to everyone else that has added their designs for the competition too.