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Yes, you didn’t hear it wrong. Wayne Liew, who is always on the pro-reader side is taking one step back by adding back the "nofollow" tag to the outgoing links in my comment section.

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First, sorry to those who commented previously just to get some link juice from Wayne Liew Dot Com’s articles after my article, You Comment, I Link You. In this article, I will be explaining why I am taking this move. You can see it as excuses but I hope you can understand my blog position in a saturated niche.

6 Reasons I Start to Use "nofollow" tags

1. Google is Getting Serious with Comment Linking

   When kljs told me about the worries of Google penalizing bloggers that dofollow commentator links, I shrug it off as Google and Matt Cutts does not have any statement on this.

   

   Now, Google secretly made an effort to show that they are taking this issue seriously by removing "comment with a link" option from Blogger, Google’s own free blogging platform. You can read more about this at The Death of Do-Follow.

   In default, outgoing links in Wordpress comment section is always parsed with the "nofollow" tags.

2. Quality Commentators Prevails

   Although I don’t face such problems on this blogging tips site, many blogs out there are. They receive commentators that use names like "Make Money Online" and "Poker Site Online" to comment which I don’t see as a sincere act. Their main intention to comment is just to get link juice for their sites.

   I am rather lucky to have top commentators which post quality comments like the current Deimos Tel`Arin and Jalaj instead of "Cheap Viagra" and "Rich Forex Trading".

3. Focusing on Search Engine Optimization

   I used to comment on other blogs that Google Page Rank are somehow irrelevant to search engine ranking position on Google but I have been proven wrong. As you can see, I am actively doing search engine optimization improvements for this site after winning the SEO Book.

   In this saturated niche, I need to get targeted traffic through search engines. Do you know that search engines can bring in thousands of unique visits daily for a site? Wayne Liew Dot Com is way under-performing in terms of search engine traffic.

4. Not Listed in Comment Hunt

   Luckily for me, my blog is not listed in the Comment Hunt, which link building experts use it to find dofollow blogs so that they can build links for their clients or their own sites. This makes the previously dofollow status of my blog remained unknown by most of the passing readers.

   For those who really comment for the sake of links, hop over to Comment Hunt. I am sure that the search engine can help you out. One event that I foresee is a drop of search results that it will provide to you because of the reasons I am adding back my "nofollow" tags.

5. Google Page Rank as a Credibility Meter

   
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   Will you ever want to see a site you are learning things from are penalized by Google? The little green bar shows more than a rating for a site nowadays. It brings up trust from first time visitors as explained on Frustrating Yes - But I Want Google To Be My Friend.

6. Boosting Number of Comments

   In the later part of this article, I would encourage my readers to comment more by giving extra incentives. Try to implement it on your blog so that your readers will continue to put in efforts in commenting.

Solutions for Bloggers in the Same Shoes

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We will be blamed and that is for sure. The biggest temptation that we are making people commenting might just because the link of their names are dofollowed. At this time, keeping the comment numbers up will be difficult. Amazingly, my most popular article, 10 Reasons You Are Not Getting Comments does not state that not offering dofollow links as one of the reasons!

You still have hopes! I will provide you a few ways that can keep you the level of comment.

Blow away reasons for not getting comments

Does your blog contains one of the 10 Reasons You Are Not Getting Comments? If so, remove it or modify your blog to make it more comment-friendly. Comments don’t come in with just good contents, it has other factors that is affecting it as well.

Show Top Commentator Plugin

Are you using the Show Top Commentator plugin? If you are not, it is time to install one to your blog, read 5 Tips for Show Top Commentators Plugin Usage and start rewarding commentators who comment frequently on your blog.

Make the links dofollow (don’t be that stingy). A link on your homepage is extremely rewarding because take Wayne Liew Dot Com for example, a link from my homepage will mean a link from 205 pages because the link will appear in each and every one of my pages and articles as crawled by Google bots.

Feature Your Commentators

Show that you do notice their effort. Feature them in your articles. Show them that you do read and appreciate them for adding value to your blog through your comments. Dofollow their links in your articles like what I did with this article.

Off-blog reward for commentators

Do you need me to teach you more on this? Put up a cash prize or reward in any form such as free advertising or free guide ($$$ is still the best motivation) to make your readers comment.

When you are using such method, make sure everyone that visits your blog knows about it through notification in prominent places. Also, you will need to take extra effort in moderating your comments so that only contributing comments are eligible for the contest.

What Is Your Say On This Event?

Is my move correct? I know I am gaming with my credibility but I really need Google’s help in building my traffic base. Yes, blogs like John Chow dot com can totally ignore Google’s guidelines and sell links "notoriously" but he already has established traffic!

Will you stop commenting on blogs which are not dofollow now? What will you have to say about this action of Google? If you are still on dofollow or the U Comment, I Follow program, will you add back the "nofollow" tags?

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After some grunts and whines, Google at last pass by Wayne Liew Dot Com and awarded me with a Page Rank. Wayne Liew Dot Com directly shot up to PR4, which I am glad of. This is not the predicted which I did last time. This is true and this is a fact, if you don’t trust me, check it out yourself at Page Rank Checker.

This post is not to show how happy I am, this post is just to show that who previously claimed that Page Rank is going to be abolished, Page Rank will be harder to get, there will be a new system of Page Rank is jumping into conclusion too early.

Google is replacing back the mighty PR6 to Problogger.net but still John Chow Dot Com’s PR remained the same as mine. My old blogspot domain has now dropped to PR2 from the old PR5.

As I said earlier, Page Rank don’t really matter to me as I don’t sell links on my homepage and you frequently see paid posts around here. All I want are loyal readers like you who are reading this. Even though I finally got an PR4, I hope everything will stop until the next round of PR update, there’s too much buzz on it and me myself is tired about it.

This will be a short posts regarding the page rank update. Check your site and tell me about your ranks. Are you happy or down about it?

There is a buzz on the whole webmaster world after the recent Google Page Rank update that most sites trading links and writing paid posts have been penalized by having their Page Rank demoted. I went on bloghopping these few days and there are no signs of people stopping these activities! I got the message loud and clear from Kumiko’s post “Worried About Being Bitch Slapped By Google? Me Neither”.

One of the main reasons is that these activities are just a lucrative and simple way to earn money on the Internet or blogging. You can write up to three paid posts a day and earn easy money of minimum USD15 whereas if you depend on all advertising platforms out there such as Adbrite and Bidvertiser, you will only earn not even USD0.10 or nothing per day.

Also, Google Page Rank demotion does not only happen to a blog, it happens to most part of the blogosphere. This brought down the rank of the range of publishers. To explain more clearly, a whole range of PR5 blogs are now at PR4, which will not cause much difference to an individual since everyone is getting the same treatment!

Continue reading Paid Posts And Link Trading: Can Google Stop You?

MyBlogLog has just been merged its account services with Yahoo and you will need to either have to create a Yahoo account or merge your existing Yahoo account with MyBlogLog. I knew about this merging right after class when I log on to the blogosphere and guess what, I DON’T LIKE IT AT ALL!

I always don’t like the “merging” of services on the Internet. When Google did the same thing with Blogger last time, I faced some problems merging my accounts because of the different username I used on both of these services. This time I am more diligent on the Internet and the merging of my Yahoo and MyBlogLog is not a headache but something nearly made me hit my keyboard.

After you have successfully merged your account, you will notice that your display avatar will be gone and your name might have been changed to the name you used on Yahoo. What you can do to replace you avatar is that you save the avatar which you see in your profile, then proceed to “Edit Profile”, reupload the saved avatar and change your name there.

Continue reading MyBlogLog Now Under Yahoo

I was bloghopping around the blogosphere just now and found this post, Scam=Scum at joey maggie. He was posting about someone called Ashwin Kanna, which owns two blogs, 30 Gigabytes Dot Com and Ashwin Kanna Dot Com (I am not generous by giving links to a scum) had made a false claim about his “USD2,500 Blogging Extravaganza” by saying that his own blog actually won his own competition after making so many bloggers link to his blog!

Why I am so upset about this is that he had many similarities with me and he is one of the first few bloggers I met on the Internet since I get into blogging. He let the all the dot com moguls (bloggers that use their own names as a domain, which is me) down. People label this scam as the “Rise and fall of a dot com mogul”! He made himself a total of 400+ free backlinks just by setting up this false competition!

I think from the beginning he already gave me a bad impression as he remove my links (set up as an agreement of link exchange) after he get an PR3 for his 30 Gigabytes blog when my old Simple Life of YP is just PR0. I didn’t take much attention of it and removed the link as his 30gigabytes Dot Com is just full of ads and it is starting to turn into something like a splog! I think Steven from Steven’s Expressions knows experienced this as well. He is already showing signs of “not-so-good” personality by the time he started blogging. Lessons learnt: Don’t break your promise in the blogosphere!

Continue reading Biggest Link Contest Scam In Blogosphere!