When you leave a comment at any WordPress blog by filling in your name and website URL in the respective fields, your name appears as a link to your blog/website on submission. By default, these links have rel=”nofollow” attribute attached to them. This attribute directs the search engine spiders / crawlers not to follow the [...]

Yesterday, I was reading much about do-Follow movement and blogs that do Follow.Its important that you know what do Follow really is because do follow or no follow links play a major role in making or marring your link-building campaign. RT has a post on building backlinks with blogs that do Follow, not no-Follow, that [...]

What is SPAM?
From the wikipedia, Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamdexing.
It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks, or other publicly accessible online [...]

WordPress sends pings to your own site when you link to other posts on your blog internally! This appears as a pingback on the post you have linked to, in the comments section. While it makes it easier to leave a trail of inter-related posts, I find this feature of WordPress quite absurd!
When you link [...]