Monthly Archives: December 2008

Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick

I read an interesting discussion on the Lay My Hat forum about the pros and cons of reciprocal linking today, and thought it might be useful to share some thoughts on the matter here. There are two reasons why directories want you to link back to them.
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Wordpress 2.7 release

Wordpress announced today that 2.7 is out of public beta and now the official stable version of Wordpress. You can download it here. I’ve been playing around with the beta version of Wordpress for a couple of months now, and if you’ve watched any of my WP tutorial screencasts, you’ll have had a sneak peek [...]
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Directories should just tell the truth

I’ve had a lot of feedback since the launch of Mental About Rental, both in forums and privately on email. One of the recurring themes is directory statistics. There seems to be an accepted view that directories are under no obligation to divulge their traffic data, and some people believe that the statistics are useless anyway. [...]
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