GameUtopia

You got me. For some reason blog scripts and sites such as this google blogspot believe that comments should be nofollow. Basically when leaving a comment on a site that allows you to put in your website if it is dofollow google will count it as a backlink and pass on some of the pagerank. If it is nofollow, then no pagerank link juice is passed or counted. People try to get backlinks by posting comments on blog sites for the purpose of getting backlinks. What many don't realize is most of them are nofollow, so much of your hard work commenting does you little. You will still get anchor text and sort of keywords for it so there is a slight plus. Yahoo does seem to count them regardless if they are dofollow or nofollow, but most people are after the google rank so dofollow is something to be on the look out for.

As I mentioned it seems to be associated with blog sites more than anything. Forum sites, and other sites where commenting is involved still for the most part seem to be dofollow. So I don't quite get why blog sites seem to impose this nofollow rule in the comments. I think google has a little influence on wordpress and other blog scripts. So whatever google thinks is best the blog scripts tend to agree.

So for all of you trying to build backlinks, you really need to identify dofollow blogs. Even if the page header says index, follow it does not mean that the comments are dofollow. Incidentally most blogs are nofollow in the comments. If you have firefox there is a nice free addon that will help you identify which blogs are dofollow and which are nofollow. It's called NoDoFollow and can be found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687

So what is all this Twitter stuff about? How did it get so big? I honestly don't know but there isn't a single day that goes by that I don't here the word Twitter, Tweet, and follow me on Twitter.

I haven't been on Twitter until recently. I guess I was Twittered out maybe. So I decided to log back in tonight and play around with it. The more I mess with it the more I actually like it. It's a fairly simple site that I think just about anyone could navigate and find their way around unlike most others where you have to spend hours just trying to figure out how to update something.

Twitter can be a powerful traffic tool if used properly. I was doing some promoting with it a while back and I did get an unexpected flow of traffic. However, it didn't last for an extended amount of time. Like anything though, I would assume regular posting and updating would help.

So if you have never been to Twitter, you might check it out in your spare time. You would be surprised who is on there. You might just find someone you have been trying to find on Twitter too.

And Twitter is one of the few sites that the not so technical or Internet savvy folks can actually figure out.

They apparently even have their own little lingo and terms they use, twits, tweets, you name it. Go figure who would have thought something so simple would be so big?

I've been noticing a lot of hidden iframe's on sites lately. Sometimes they vary a bit, but all of the ones I've noticed seem to involve a link to a .cn or china site. Undoubtedly it's some kind of malware or similar exploit. Apparently a lot of site owners or administrators aren't even aware their site has this or something, because when I come back to the site days later it's still there. Perhaps some anti-virus and other blockers don't pick it up as a threat or something. I use avast anti-virus and it has picked it up and blocked it on more sites than I can count lately.

It has become more than a little annoying seeing that warning as frequently as I have lately. Then again it's always something. The wonderful world of the Internet. If there is something that can be exploited somehow it will be I guess.

Anyway I just basically wanted to point out that this is out there, and if you are a site owner or administrator be on the look out for it. I know some other anti-virus programs I've used on other computers don't warn me about it like avast does. Whether the others have some protection against this and I just don't see the warning or not I do not know.

Always be on the look out for this iframe exploit and other exploits!

My quest for Google Pagerank has slowly paid off. I have seen my main site slowly increase in pagerank from a 0 to a 1 and now a 2. A couple of the internal pages were a pagerank 3, but I believe they are now 2's.

I spent countless hours researching and testing thoughts and ideas on how to increase pagerank. I followed a few sites tips and suggestions. They all seemed to have helped, but I can't help to wonder if I would have achieved this anyway.

I have come to the conclusion that it is a never ending process that involves a lot of time and effort for quick results. By quick I mean 3-6 months.

I have scaled back my quest for pagerank because I can't devote all my free time to this, I have other things to work on.

At any rate getting a pagerank 1 and 2 is relatively easy I would say, but 3-4 and above will take more time and effort as it starts to get tougher after this.

I am hoping to top out at a 3 or 4 and I will be content with that.