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New WordPress Plugin To Deter Comment Spam

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:02:53 +0000

Late last week, I quietly released my new WordPress plugin, Comment Warning. Over the weekend, I added some extra functionality and it’s now reached the point where I’m ready to announce it to the world. … [visit site to read more]

Bye Bye DoFollow (The NoFollow Saga)

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:24:28 +0000

I implemented a DoFollow plugin back in August 2007 and it served me well for a couple of years, leading to an increase in traffic. However, in May 2009, the level of comment spam on this blog led to me disabling it. This is a consolidation of four posts covering that span.

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Spammed By A Master (Of Making Money Online)

Stephen Cronin — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:19:05 +0000

One side-effect of making your blog DoFollow is an increase in traffic. Unfortunately, it also leads to an increase in comment spam – and I’ve recently been spammed by Make Money Online Master. … [visit site to read more]

Borderline Spammers Beware – Use KeywordLuv!

Stephen Cronin — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:41:15 +0000

This is just a quick post to warn the borderline spammers that leave comments here: If you just leave keywords in the name field, I’ll remove the link! You must use the KeywordLuv syntax: yourname@your keywords. … [visit site to read more]

NOT All My Loving – CommentLuv Deactivated

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:39:38 +0000

This post was supposed to be titled All My Loving and announce the adoption of the CommentLuv plugin. In combination with my very own KeywordLuv plugin, I would have indeed been giving you all my loving. Unfortunately, I had a problem with CommentLuv and have deactivated it. For now…

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New WordPress Plugin – KeywordLuv

Stephen Cronin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:28:38 +0000

I’d like to announce the release of KeywordLuv, my new WordPress plugin, but RT from Untwisted Vortex beat me to it, announcing it several days ago. I need to be quicker with this sort of thing! I don’t mind, as KeywordLuv was partially inspired by RT’s post on building backlinks via DoFollow blogs.

KeywordLuv helps you reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their site. This gives them improved anchor text, which can help their site rank higher in the search engine results.

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Don’t Let Your CommentLuv Be Stolen Away!

Stephen Cronin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:50:49 +0000

Many WordPress blogs are adopting the CommentLuv plugin, because it gives readers extra incentive to make a comment – it automatically adds a link to the commentator’s latest post at the end of their comment.

This is great for the commentator, for several reasons outlined below. However, some people are not taking full advantage of the benefits. … [visit site to read more]