I’ve moved on to other things. These plugins are no longer supported. 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: If you’d like the new version, download Linky Love for WP 2.3. Unzip. Place in plugin folder. Deactivate the old version, activate this one. If you notice any problems, let me know so I can fix. A word or caution I’m planning a tool to help us find these things months later, “just in case”, but haven’t thought through the best way to do it yet. Meanwhile, be very vigilant about trackback spam. When in doubt delete. I found a bug in “Hide Sponsored Categories Plugins” for 2.3. It only happens for categories that have apostrophe’s in their name. I have such a category. It’s the one for “L’s Linky Love!” So, I’m currently running the old version. Needless to say, I’ll be fixing that bug!
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Trackback spam can be particularly pesky. I have seen a rash of semi-innocent looking scraper blogs that post snippets of your content. I call these Daegan Spam. If you keep those trackbacks and visit later, you will notice the blogs get redirected to irrelevant thin-affiliate sites for commercial products. This causes you to link into a “bad neighborhood”, which is a bad thing. In the “irony” department
L’s Linky Love for WP 2.3: Option to follow trackback immediately.
October 31st, 2007Six Reasons I Won’t Cloaks Nofollows so Only Google Sees Them.
October 30th, 2007Recently, 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 happens, I thought about this strategy way back when I wrote How To Cloak Nofollows on Individual WordPress Articles. Sebastian’s article discussed the “pro” side of this cloaking nofollows on paid links. I’m going to discuss the “cons”.
But first, a bit of nuts and bolts.
Is it possible to cloak nofollows?!
Absolutely! It is entirely possible to deliver one page to the Googlebot and another to human visitors. I discuss how to deliver cloaked nofollow entire pages in How To Cloak Nofollows on Individual WordPress Articles. Should you wish to delve deeper into the subject; I recommend reading Sebastian’s and Tellin’ Ya’s articles.
If you were to want to cloak nofollows with Wordpress, you would likely do it using a plugin you could use as linkbait, right?
Here are 6 reasons why I wouldn’t write a plugin to cloak nofollowed paid links!
Funny Google PR Fallout: Advertisers Requesting Posties To REMOVE Links.
October 29th, 2007In 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 remove a post from September 13.
1. What would be the logic behind that?
2. Can I delete posts, and if so, how old do they need to be?
Why ask to remove the link?
Theoretically, the advertiser was walloped by Google for paid links, and is trying to correct the issue. They are now writing posties asking them to remove posts, as required to get Google to consider re-inclusion in search results.
Will Posties remove the links?
Probably. Few want to screw over their paying customers.
Still, the responses can be a bit funny. Here’s a tongue-in-cheek quip:
“*chuckle* . wonder if they would pay you to remove it Wink”
Ouch! And who is to say it’s entirely unfair?
Here’s a refusal:
[...] the say they don’t want links from blogs anymore. Well………..I’m a tough love bitty, and my post is good and I don’t delete content.
So, I guess if you pay for links in content, you may lose control!
Two other posties suggest additional evil spins on the request:
A funny/evil thing to do would be to change the links to a competitor!
That would be a smarter choice, because if I was an evil competitor, I would nicely start emailing all the posties to get rid of the post of my competitor Twisted Evil
Which prompts at least three Posties to point out that such requests should be funneled through PPP. After all, how is the Postie to verify who is asking them to remove the links?!
Presumably, PPP will figure out a procedure to deal with these novel requests. Who’d a thunk this would happen?