No More “dofollow”
After a little bit of internal debate, I’ve decided to make this blog a “nofollow” blog – or in otherwords, put it back the way that it was.
For many, many months, perhaps even a year or two I’ve used a plugin which disabled the default “nofollow” on WordPress blogs to help folks out; give real people who are trying to build a real business online a little bit of help by providing them a real, honest-to-goodness link to their site.
But…alas, no more.
The amount of spam that I get has quite honestly gotten way out of hand. And I’m tired of performing maintenance on comments.
The last straw was when I received a comment that still had the spin tags contained within it! How’s that for professional?
It’s just taking up far too much of my time and I feel bad for those who are truly trying to build a business online and really need decent “dofollow” links.
So, hopefully, this will help reduce the amount of spam I get on a daily basis.
Just for the record, I’ve received over 400 spam comments in the last 30 days.
I ALWAYS check out the site that’s being promoted and while this used to be a way of dealing with spammy comments, I obviously can no longer take the time to deal with them.
Maybe at some time in the future, when things settle down a bit and I’ve been taken off whatever “dofollow” blog directories I’m on, I’ll re-implement it but for now, it’s all “nofollow”.
- Kristine
How to Create a PDF AND Keep the Links In-Tact (for free)
I created this short video for the “How To” videos section of KristineWirth.com but thought you’d appreciate it here too.
One of the biggest issues I’ve had with creating PDF files personally is not getting the links to remain in-tact after I publish a file to PDF format. I don’t want to spend the hundreds of dollars it takes for “professional” software because I only wanted to accomplish two things:
- Make the PDF Password protected AND
- Maintain the links both in the table of contents AND within the document itself
It took some research but after spending some time perusing resources online, I discovered that I already had the ability to do this and I could do it for free!
Watch how I did it:
The New Google Search
If you’ve logged into Google lately you probably noticed some pretty significant changes. I’ve just made you a very quick video on the new Google search.
