http://money.bigbucksblogger.com Comments on blogs about making money blogging. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:21:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Comfirmed by Joe of Pay Per Post / Izea: Some publishers are paying posties $100 to remove paid links. The discussion takes place on this thread. Here's an interesting tidbit: Several posties wouldn't have been able to find the paid links to delete without the spread sheet provided ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/posties-paid-100-to-remove-links/ Do you remember Shoemoney's Pamcake's eyerolls at the idea that "Nofollow" blogs have good comments? Well, if you need any proof, visit the two blogs currently neck and neck in the "2007: Best Weblogs" contest. At both Climate Audit and Bad Astronomy, you'll find plenty of heated debate. The ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/proof-that-nofollow-quality-comments-visit-the-best-science-blogs/ John Reese, the promoter who brought "Blogrush" recently announced "TrafficJam.com"; evidently TrafficJam will help our blogs even more than Blogrush. The Blogosphere seems to have ignored the announcement. . . But I won't ignore it! John Reese is now promising loads of traffic through "TrafficJam", requesting bloggers be patient ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/trafficjamcom-is-coming-can-it-save-blogrush/ Which blog do you prefer? One that makes easy things hard to understand? Or one that makes difficult things easy to understand? In "Is your blog easy to read?" Muhammad Saleem recommends the second. He also guides bloggers to an online readability tool to test the reading level of ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/make-your-blog-easy-to-read-heck-even-a-phd-can/ Do you use tags? Did you know they can bash your Google Page rank? But you can fix that? Reading Graywolf's blog, I was reminded to watch out for duplicate content issues and Wordpress. It turns out that the wordpress default doesn't nofollow "tags". Because bloggers who tag posts tend ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/two-tips-to-avoid-duplicate-content-robotstxt-or-meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/ Seo Egghead has evidently discovered a WP 2.3.1 vulnerability HTML-tainting attacks. (The vulnerability evidently exists in W.P 2.1). The apparent application is to inject ads into bloggers older posts; these would tend to look like paid links. The problems for you would be a potential ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/wordpress-vulnerability-take-a-little-time-to-check/ Do you check your referrers? I do. I even try to learn things about search from my referrers. Today, I learned two thing when I investigated why I had a high rank for the Google search PageRank Zero October 2007. What did I learn? First, ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/two-lessons-about-search-what-i-learned-by-ranking-2-for-pagerank-zero-october-2007/ Update I've moved on to other things. These plugins are no longer supported. Article I've updated L's Linky Love for WP 2.3. Sort of. It turned out the plugin already worked for WP 2.3. However, I did make a two mods at user request: Josh Spaulding requested the ability to dofollow ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/lucias-linky-love-for-wp-23-option-to-follow-trackback-immediately/ Recently, Sebastian suggested that paid link sellers could switch their business model by secretly no following links. That is, making the paid links look like they "follow" except when viewed by Google's spiders. These type of links would be called "cloaked nofollows". As it ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/six-reasons-i-wont-cloaks-nofollows-so-only-google-sees-them/ In the unexpected danger category: If you pay for links, you may find a few link sellers will refuse to remove them even if you ask! Seriously, the Postie Board thread started by SeeKim, a postie, who writes: I just got an email from an advertiser wanting me to ... http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/funny-google-pr-fallout-advertisers-requesting-posties-to-remove-links/