I was going through a post by Matt Cutts on PageRank Sculpting. And it really explains a few basic things on PageRank mechanism from Google’s point of view. It undermines the importance of PageRank Sculpting. If you don’t know what PageRank Sculpting is, then for a primary knowledge I can say that it is a way of controlling link juice flow within your site by making certain link portion nofollow artifially. For example, consider making “Archives” & “Category” part of your WordPress blog nofollow. Here are a few quick things that you should know from that post: [...]
You just have to remove a few “nofollow” tags from Blogger template. You should have no problem with this easy method. From Blogger Dashboard go to Layout> Edit HTML. Then check the box beside “Expand Widget Templates”. Now search for the below line of code
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'>
Remove rel='nofollow' from it. Save your template.
To remove nofollow attribute from pingback/trackback urls find the line
<a expr:href='data:backlink.url' rel='nofollow'>
& remove the nofollow tag just like before.
Now your Blogger blog has become dofollow.
By the way do a backup of your template before modifying it. It’s always safe. Enjoy your dofollow blogspot blog.
Yeah! I have to say it is unexpected, as it happened within a month of last public PR update. As you know the last update took place on 27/28 May. And now from 23rd June people started reporting changes in PageRank. Usually toolbar PR update is released by Google in two-three moths span. So there is a reason to get a bit astonished. [...]
Perhaps many of you have seen unusual increase in FeedBurber subscribers count lately. That may have happened because you have a decent number of followers in FriendFeed. FeedBurner has started adding FriendFeed count to your blog subscribers. So it’s time to rejoice for old FriendFeed users. [...]
Google Adsense has introduced a feature to change font size in your ad disply units. Current default is small. You can change the size to medium or large. To change it for all the ad units go to My Account> Account Settings> Ad Display Preference. Or if you want to change it for an individual account, go to Manage Ads under Adsense Setup. [...]
Google Webmaster Tools has launched a new tool called Change of address with its brand new look. If you are moving your site from old domain to a new one, it can be of much help. Using this service you can reflect the change in Google index faster & make the transition smoother for your users. You can find the tool under Site Configuration option of the respective site. You have to have both old & new domain verified to use this service. So there is no problem of unauthorized access. [...]
I have seen quite a few people asking for instant-approval directory list in webmaster forums like Digitalpoint. They look for auto-approval directories so that they can get some quick backlinks. But don’t just concentrate only on it. Not only the number of backlinks but also the quality of backlinks matters, and in a big way too. [...]
Do you have an open blog? Then you know the importance of creating a blogging community for your blog so that contributors come & write regularly. One way to do this is to increase interaction among the members. If they can interact directly with each other from your blog, then they can use it as a platform to meet fellow bloggers with same interest & communicate for views on their own blogs or link exchange. That means more visit from your members. Besides c0-authors can communicate better to find what topics to write to make the posts coherent in your blog. [...]
This is a blog about blogging. I blog on WordPress. But I didn’t say a word about WordPress 2.8! Why? Simply because I don’t have enough time to explore the new features by experimenting with it. I haven’t upgraded yet. And there is no point writing on something what I don’t know pretty well. I am too busy going through my training. By the way, I have never mentioned it, I am a software professional. [...]
Sometime ago I have written a post about removing Blogger Navbar. Many bloggers like to remove it. But it is not legal for all blogspot blogs. You are permitted to remove it only if you self-host your Blogger blog i.e. publish it via FTP. And I doubt if anyone of you do that. It’s certainly not a great idea when you have WordPress to use. Here is what Blogger support has to say about the removal: [...]