But I found out that blogs come set up with a nofollow tag.
I guess someone didn't think we should be given a choice.
I'll be removing mine, I just feel like I'm a big girl and I'm able to decide who I want to link to and who I don't want to link.
Matt Cutts stepped in to make sure we knew when to add them.
Q: “If one were to offer to sell space on their site (or consider purchasing it on another), would it be a good idea to offer to add a NOFOLLOW tag so to generate the traffic from the advertisement, but not have the appearance of artificial PR manipulation through purchasing of links?”
A: Yes, if you sell links, you should mark them with the nofollow tag. Not doing so can affect your reputation in Google.
Guess Google will be telling me what colors to use on my site next.
Here's what the tag looks like
What the NoFollow tag looks like:
Instead of linking to a site with
<a xhref="http://www.site.com">Site</a>
The link would now look like
<a xhref="http://www.site.com" rel="nofollow" >Site</a>
I'll be removing the tag from all my blogs this weekend.
I’ve been playing around with some blogs for the last couple days and I’ve decided that I like the whole blogging idea.
As a matter of fact I’ve even decided to build a couple blogs that are selling products as well as looking into other ways that I can make money with blogs.
One thing that really interested me was the PayPerPost better known as PPP. It seems to be a fairly new idea but one that has a lot of potential.
I’ve found 4 companies that are doing this but was not impressed by any of them.
1.I couldn’t figure out how to work their site.
2.Had some things going on that were just scary.
3.Was coming but was not here yet.
4.Was wanting to sell text links on my site.
It’s a bit upsetting since I really like the idea, so I’ve decided to take one of my sites and set up a private forum where Advertisers can meet bloggers and work out how much the advertisers are willing to pay for a product review.
I’m not planning on making any money off the site, it’s just a meeting place for bloggers and advertisers.
The bloggers get the chance to make a little money and the advertisers get to gain some traffic and make a little buzz about their product or site.
Think about having 10 or 15 thousand bloggers blogging about you and your company.
Seems like a win, win opportunity to me.
I’m constantly amazed at the people on forums that are able to come out and state things as fact that they themselves have not tested.
I have no problem with someone saying In My Opinion but to come out and state something as 100% fact when they have not tested it is just beyond me.
Most of the time the person stating everything as 100% fact don’t have a clue what their talking.
I guess people that believe these people without doing their own home work get exactly what they deserve, Bad Information and Bad Results.
I was playing around online today and found another company that is about to do the same thing as PayPerPost but claim to have higher payouts.
It’s not payola: bloggers are required to disclose that reviews are paid, and they are not pressured to make the reviews positive. (Oh, and one other thing: the payouts will be fat.)
Three things;
- Bloggers have to say that the reviews are being paid for.
- You do not have to write anything positive
- The payouts will be fat. I’m thinking he’s saying they will pay more then payperpost.
I like the way the new year is shaping up.
I’m not sure why anyone uses these stupid companies to block their spam mail.
A lot of times I’ll have a question about a product or service and will send an email to the website address only to get back a stupid email that says I have to prove I’m a real person before they will let my email go through.
Talk about making your customers jump through hoops.
While I’m on the subject I guess most of you know about the law suit between Spamhaus and e360.
Spamhaus was ordered to pay $11,715,000.00 plus remove e360 name from their list of spammers.
Spamhaus is a UK company and it appears they decided to go home and stop talking to the US and keep their money.
Now the courts have ordered ICANN to suspend the name but ICANN is saying they don’t have the authority to do that.
style=”font-family: Verdana; color: black”>If the courts figure out they should go to the registry for the .org name which is in the US there is a good chance that name will be suspended.
It’s a crazy ruling; kind of like saying that if you have a court order to pay someone and you don’t pay they will kick you out of your office until you do pay.
Guess it’s time to start using more then one domain name for your business.
