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Last Updated on March 6, 2018 by Work In My Pajamas
I stumbled across Andy Beard’s Ultimate List of DOFOLLOW & NOFOLLOW PlugIns looking for some “follow” advice on my blogs.
I downloaded the WP Plugin: Nofollow from Home to add the “rel=nofollow” to the homepage posts of this very site along with some of my other blogs, so Google wouldn’t follow the affiliate links. You can be penalized for too many affiliate links on a site.
Then WordPress automatically adds the “rel=nofollow” to post comments, so I downloaded the DoFollow WP Plugin from Semiologic to remove the tag on comments and trackbacks. That will encourage other webmasters to comment and link to specific website posts knowing it will help their PR. Go ahead and try it out. Leave a comment on this very post including your URL – can’t beat a free one-way link… unless, of course, you do want to link to this site!
P.S. Yes, I know it’s Friday, and I am wearing a free t-shirt. I’ll see if I can get one of my daughters to snap a pic…
Did I hear someone say free link? Sounds good to me!
http://martyfahncke.wordpress.com
What I do with affiliate links, most of them pass through my own tracking script, though you can also just create pages that do a meta redirect.
Then you can block the affiliate link directory with robots.txt so they are 100% guaranteed not to pass link love.
My problem is sometimes I am in a bit of a rush, and get a little lazy.
The whole thing is just far too complicated for me. I just let Google get on with it and trust in the fact that they know what they’re doing. I guess that’s why I’d never make a good marketer. I do use robots.txt though when I notice a surge in spam bots running wild on my site.
Free Links? Awesome. ps i didnt know about the having too many affiliate links. Thanks for the heads up. im new forgive me.
http://www.nicherus.com
Free links awasome, I’m going to install the same plugins in my site
Hi all!
As a fresh workinmypajamas.com user i only wanted to say hi to everyone else who uses this site 😀
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