The head of the Google Anti Spam team, Matt Cutts has clarified Google position on this ‘NoFollow’ and ‘PageRank’ debate thats been raging for the last week or so, and that I posted about last week: “The PageRank and NoFollow bombshell“.
Anyone with an interest in SEO and especially how adding ‘NoFollow’ to hyperlinks interacts with PageRank will probably already be aware of the change that Google has ’sort of’ announced. Read more on SEOMoz if not. Perhaps you also are up in arms about the whole thing? Well not me as I think the whole DoFollow, PageRank, backlink thing is in an utter mess and not understood as I think Google sees it.
Just a quick post this morning, which is to big up the Stop Forum Spam website.
We use the vBulletin software and despite having all our external links being ‘nofollow’ we still get targeted by spammers. It is normally pretty obvious which members are spammers before they even post, but what Stop Forum Spam does is to allow you to check their email address, IP Address or username against their database first so you can delete the member before they start posting. No-one is going to be daft enough to follow their links anyway, but if left unchecked it can start to clog up the forums and cause annoyance to members.
If you use the Stop Forum Spam service, please obtain an API key and start contributing your own spam finds - it helps keep the spammers at bay and means discussion forums stay useful places.
With the recent release of Internet Explorer 8, I thought I’d add a quick update of the browser usage stats for one of my websites which caters for a slightly more mature audience rather than the younger tech savvy reader.
Blu-ray has been around for a while now - the players are getting better and the discs are getting cheaper, but I’m still not convinced that I need to be buying into it.