Because I’ve been online since before the web, spam and the September that never ended, my default stance on things net-related has been one of collaboration and openness. If you leave a comment here, I expect that you’re doing it because you’re interested in the conversation, not ...

Dave Naylor seems to think it is a good idea to nofollow blog comments. In many ways he is right:- You get increased automated comment spam You get increased spam from outsourced commenting You get increased spam from people using commenting efficiency tools (Comment Kahuna, Comment Hut etc) You get...

Many of us have used blog comments to jumpstart a new website. Links are a commodity, and beyond the benefit they impart when it comes to SEO, it’s easy to get caught up in a numbers obsession. Feverishly watching Analytics numbers, Alexa ranking, Pagerank and Technorati authority are all symp...

Apologies to my regular readers who haven’t been abusing my generousity, but I’ve been forced into turning off ‘dofollow‘ on comments. Too many users are trying to take advantage and it’s taking too much time each day to delete or edit their comments. If users still wan...

To my surprise, I noticed a John Chow article I posted sitting on page one of the results for a "John Chow" search at Google. This got me to thinking about how that one post out of 2,140,000 results made it up this high. This will be more of an analysis than a proof. I have a PR0 blog and really not...

Poor John is scratching his head over his latest revelation that his keyterm for "Make Money Online" went from the number one slot to being buried on page three. Tsk, tsk. I will buy you a beer for that one though! I did warn people of Google's intent of cracking down on paid links and highlighted t...