Not Everyone's Mama

I stopped doing Follow Friday on Twitter for awhile.  When you start following hundreds (in my case) or thousands (in some cases) of Twitter peeps, it can get to be a daunting task.  I always feel like I’m leaving someone out.  When I started using TweetDeck awhile ago, I would just go through my @ replies and suggest the people that I had interacted with for the week.  But then there are a lot of people that I may not have had @ replies from that I think are excellent people to follow on Twitter, and what if I left someone out?  Yes, I stress about things like that.

I started googling Follow Friday tools and came upon 2.  One I used last week and one I used today. 

Last week I tried out Twitter Tag Project.  That gave me a lot of people that I enjoy but haven’t received replies from.  It gives you the 200 most active Twitter people you follow.  That’s ok.  It’s not all about me, people, as much as I would like it to be.  I think that one gave me good results and people appreciate it.  I had a lot of thank you’s back.  (Which I don’t expect, I swear.  I just usually don’t get a lot of replies back to my Follow Fridays.)  I really really liked this one.  But, if you just want to shout out people you interact with, check out the next.

This week I tested out Follow Friday Helper.  It didn’t give me as many people to shout out, just people I have interacted with, but it gave me more than going through my tweet deck gives me.  I liked that too.  Plus,

Most of the people I know do not recommend me because it’s just too much work to do on the last day of the week. FollowFriday Helper is the solution to that.

But that’s not all. You can use FFH on other days – other than Fridays – to send #ThankYou, #Gratitude, #Top and aboutany other social tweet you might think of.

I wonder if I could use the 2 in conjunction with each other?  I think I would have to use Follow Friday Helper first then Twitter Tag Project and I would have to remember which people I shouted out the first time.  There’s that whole remembering thing again.

What do you use for Follow Friday?  One of the above?  Something completely different?  Your memory?  I’ve got mom to 4 kids memory.  I swear I lost more brain cells that are responsible for remembering things with each kid I gave birth to.  Unless we are talking about my husband, I can requote every conversation I have had with him since the day we met.  Typical woman I suppose.  He hates that. 

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That is the question.

I’m not a technical blogger, but I follow a lot of technical bloggers on Twitter and through their blogs.  Most of them I have met through the Blog Engage community.  (Let me know if you need an invite, they are all fabulous and you can learn so much!)  I have learned so much from them.  I may not blog about a lot of technical stuff myself, but even parent bloggers need the know how to set up their blog correctly, learn how to use SEO, find great sources etc.  And I’m just a techie geek (I say that as a high compliment to all who are) at heart.

I was reading Kim’s post Can You Help Me Find The DoFollows? and thought I’d join in.  My blog already met most of the requirements.  It’s been Do Follow for a long time.  I now have the following plug ins installed – KeywordLuv, CommentLuv, Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin, Twitter Link Comments, and DoFollow.  The 2 I had to install were KeywordLuv and Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin.

I have no problem spreading the link juice love to my blog readers.  I have a problem with giving it to Mr Spam (wo)man.

Because of that and following Justin at Dragon Blogger’s suggestion, I posted a comment policy.

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll notice that those 2 people are the people I retweet regularly when it comes to blog posts.  I find their posts to be incredibly informative AND interesting to read. 

You can follow Justin @ Dragon Blogger and Kim @ AskKim.

Back to Do Follow.  It’s a great way to say thank you to your readers who follow you and a great way to help them grow their blog.  I’ve never hunted down blogs just to leave keyword links. That’s horribly spammy.  If I am a regular blog reader who leaves comments though and your blog is Do Follow, I appreciate it a lot.

I know a lot of the bigger bloggers are strictly No Follow.  I suppose they do that so no one will take advantage of their PR, but I also say why not help out the blogger who looks up to you, follow your blog, and comments daily.  I’m not a PR4 or 5, I’m a PR3, but I’m happy to help out my readers.

So, there you have it.  On my blog, the answer to the question is Do Follow.

What do you do on your blog?

If you’re torn, read Kim’s post.  It might help sway you either way.  Plus, read my comment policy.  That might give you an idea of whether you want to be do follow or not with being able to restrict certain things.

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I always forget to do these things.  Luckily I was visiting Simply Stacie on Thursday and it reminded me.

Welcome to Twitter Hop Thursday, hosted by Simply Stacie, The King’s Court IV, Little Yaya’s, Kelly’s Lucky You and Dear Crissy.

Would you like more Twitter followers and be introduced to more neat blogs and businesses out there? Come and join us!!

1. Add your Twitter to the MckLinky (you only have to add it to one and it will appear on all).

2. Click on the Twitter for the five hostesses and follow each of them on Twitter. We will follow you back.

3. Follow as many people on Twitter as you like, but make sure to leave comments with links so they’ll know where to follow you!

Spread the word and add this MckLinky to your blog! Write your own post or copy and paste this one. Below the MckLinky box, you’ll see “Want to be a part of this Blog Hop? Click here for instructions and code”. Have fun Twitter-Hopping along!

We have selected a Twitterer of the Week from last week’s entries and the lucky winner is Baby Gator’s Den! They will be in the #6 spot! We will choose next week’s winner from everyone who participated today.

Please only add your Twitter url. All other entries will be deleted. Thank you!

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I was so excited over how brilliantly I set up my .htaccess file so that my images couldn’t be hotlinked to.  It still works great.  One major minor itty bitty slightly catastrophic problem to fix.

My RSS feed is showing the bandwidth picture instead of my actually pictures.

That’s not cool.

I want you to be able to read my RSS feed if that’s how you choose to read it.

I am so sorry!

Thank you so much to the 2 wonderful ladies who told me about it.

I set up 2 conditions to the .htaccess file so that (I’m hoping) if you read my blog from feedburner or Google reader it should appear normally again.  If there’s another feed reader that needs to be set in the conditions let me know and I’ll add it. 

I am so sorry for any inconvenience on my part with that.  Promise Google Reader and Feedburner are not on my list of bandwidth thieves that I’ve been dealing with.  I appreciate their services AND EVEN MORE I appreciate you using their services to follow along with my blog.

Thank you!

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I know you get past all of my spam safeguards.  I know your comments get to me to moderate.  Every time I get one, I spam you.  But you don’t take the hint.  You just keep coming back.  You must actually be visiting my blog and typing in the code and getting past the rest of the safeguards and I applaud you for doing the work and not just using a robot but even though I will give you the applause I will not approve your comment.  I have no interest in helping you sell your male products.

This comment you left me last night was quite creative though.  It even made me laugh.  It must be because you checked back to see if I approved your comments and alas, you found I hadn’t.

Click on it to see it larger.

Even though you made me giggle, I am still not going to approve your comment and I did blur out the links because again, I’m not being paid to hawk your wares.  Even if I was being paid, bigger penises is not on the list of things I need to advertise.  I don’t have a penis, therefore no need to enlarge it.  My husband said he’s not interested either.

So, now that we have all had a laugh can you please go find another blog to bother?

Or we could continue this relationship, you comment, I don’t approve, you comment, I don’t approve, you come up with something kind of clever and I make a post all about you…..whatever you’d like.

Anyone want to take bets on whether he leaves me a comment on this post, not even noticing the post was about him? Just trying to sell me penis enlargers?

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AKA STOP HOTLINKING

To me.  To anyone.  I know the people who actually are reading this post aren’t the ones doing it. that’s where the tip comes in.

Upload your photos somewhere else.  I need to do this consistently.

My site was almost shut down in December because a company, who should have known better, was hotlinking to a scrap page of mine.  Now mind you, I wrote the post for them.  BUT they should have uploaded the image to somewhere else.  Their site was high traffic and it was just pulling my bandwidth left and right.  Almost all of it until I figured out what was going on. Reupped the file to imageshack and renamed a very small file the same as the one that being used that said image removed, please see site. (Thank you so much to my host (Host Duplex) for giving me that idea!)  That stopped the massive wave of bandwidth theft right there.

I just got another notice from my host that I am having major bandwidth usage going on and that they were going to have to block some of the flow because I was using a HUGE percentage of the traffic to the server I am on.  I cannot blame them.  If I am causing some of the other sites to malfunction because of traffic going to my site, I don’t blame them.  I’d shut it down to a trickle too until it was stabilized so the other sites weren’t affected.

I am upgrading to a VPS this month so that should help.  My actual traffic to my blog has gone up a bit, but the majority of this is from other sites hotlinking to my images.  I just found one site hotlinking to the image of a product in a review.  You couldn’t have gone to Amazon and found your own image?

(I have to say thank you again to Host Duplex for not just shutting things down like some webhosting companies would do.  They email and let me know that I am hogging up the server and it’s affecting other sites on the server.  That gives me a chance to get in and look at my stats and figure out where all the bandwidth usage is coming from.)

Here’s a tip if your new to blogging.  Do not right click, copy image URL, and add that URL as an image to your site.  Your stealing bandwidth from the other site and the site owner is paying for it.  I do not have unlimited hosting.  I’ve had bad experiences with a company who offered that when I was naive and a new website owner.  Almost every website owner will tell you to stay away from cheap unlimited hosting.  I chose to pay a little more to have a reliable host (who I feel is very reasonably priced for the services they provide, not to mention they are on all the time whenever I have a question.  IE: Had one today – sent a tweet – 30 seconds later – had a response. They rock!)

If it’s an image that you have permission to use or is in the public domain, right click it and save it.  Host it on your own server or use one of the many many image storing sites out there:  Imageshack, photobucket, flickr.

I’ve mentioned this before but I really want to put a line of code in so that when someone hotlinks to my site it comes up with an image that says the picture was stolen from my site, but until I can figure out how to do that and not affect the buttons that are out there, I cannot do that.  Wait, you know what.  I could change the code and instead of using an image that says it was stolen, I could use my button!!!  I am so doing that.

Here is a tutorial on how to do that via the .htaccess file – that I now have to find.

I’m off to figure that out!

ETA – it worked!  And I uploaded the .htaccess file to a different folder than my button is in, so that means that it shouldn’t accuse someone of stealing my bandwidth if they are just using my button.  I’m testing it before I replace my button that I have it reading in the .htaccess file with another one.

Ok, it works!  If your adding a .htaccess file for your self-hosted wordpress blog and your blog pictures are uploaded in the blog/wp-content/uploads directory.  Add the .htaccess file to that folder.  It will block your pictures from being hotlinked to.  I had my button stored in a completely different folder outside my blog and it’s not affected.  Here’s the image people see now when hotlinking to my site –

That should get the point across, you think?

I found this site which will write the code for you.

Woot woot!  Have a great night!

I’m off to bed.

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**UPDATE** 1/21/11 I had to disable RSS Blogroll.  Last night I got a call from my webhost that my site was under attack.  At least 200 ports were opened at the same time pinging away at my site.  We both were investigating seeing if it was a bot or if it was a plugin or if by chance I had unintentionally ticked someone off.  They got into the backend of my blog and started checking the plugins.  When they turned off RSS Blogroll the attack stopped.  I left a message for the plugin author hoping he has a fix to it, but for now I do not have this one activated on my blog.

I was adding some RSS feeds to my blogroll today and thought, you know I really like this WordPress Plugin. It’s probably one of the ones I use most often. It’s RSS Blogroll. You can see it in action at the top of my sidebar to the right. It’s under blog stalking.

From the Plugin Creator -

I don’t really like Blogrolls, I think they’re often not much more than glorified link dumps. I don’t like how they give you nothing more than the Blog title, and unless that title really grabs your attention, you’re never gonna click it. I don’t like how they are often just a static list, commonly out of date, that you learn to ignore after the first 4 page views. In their current format, they just appear to be a great waste of space.

This is why I decided to create the RSS Blogroll plugin. RSS Blogroll allows you to link to your favourite blogs via the latest items from their RSS/Atom feed. Article titles are much more attention grabbing and will deliver much higher quality traffic. We all hate clicking through to abandoned blogs – displaying article publication dates also lets readers know these are up to date and active sites.

Many of us want to direct some of our traffic to related sites. RSS Blogroll will create deeplinks to the target sites, which are much more useful for SEO than homepage links. Overall it’s a win-win situation with a better browsing experience for users and the linked sites getting more visitors who are actually interested in their content.

When I installed RSS Blogroll plugin, I was searching for something to make my link list shorter.  I have a lot of blogs that I love but it was taking over my sidebar.  I use those links those to visit the blogs that I read.  Going through that whole list could take a long time.

This plugin saves me in 2 ways – I set the number of feeds I want to display and I can see the blogs that I read which have been updated recently.  I can make it as long of a list or as short of a list as I want.  I can add more info or I can keep it decluttered with just the title.  I can set how often I want it to check for new blog posts.  Love it!

See, I keep it simple for my sidebar since my columns aren’t that wide and I don’t want it to be a huge mess of links.

I had been using collapsable link plugins before and those were great except that they had certain settings I couldn’t change, my list was still long, etc etc etc.  This has worked perfectly for me for quite awhile now.

I just thought I’d pass along that tip in case anyone had out of control sidebars like I did before.

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I have searched and searched and searched for WordPress Plugins that would help me with various tasks on my blog, make my blog more efficient, more SEO friendly.  There are tons of them out there and there tons of “best wordpress plugins”, “best free wordpress plugins”, “Top Comment Plugins”, “Best SEO Plugins”, etc etc etc posts out there, but how many of them are actually useful to me and my blog (and to my fellow parent and/or review bloggers).

So, I put forth the question, as a review blogger, as a parent blogger, if you use wordpress, what plugins do you use?  I thought it would be interesting to compare and see what we each use, what someone else is using but we haven’t found yet, what you can’t live without.

If you make a post about it, please link me to it in the comments because I’d love to see what your favorite wordpress plugins are!

Here are the ones that I have activated (I am only including activated because if it’s deactivated, obviously I either didn’t find it to live up to the hype or it’s too complicated for me to figure out, etc. and haven’t deleted it yet.  Why include those?)

AddToAny: Subscribe Button

The Subscribe button helps people subscribe to your blog using any feed reader, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Netvibes, Windows Live, and all other RSS readers. The button comes with AddToAny’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing and usage history.

Ad Squares Widget

This widget makes it possible for you to display 125×125 ad squares ( or some other configurable size ) into a widget-ready bar for WordPress®. You can have just 2 squares, or as many as 8 running together. It also supports multi-widget options. So technically you could have even more than 8 if you add it to a bar more than once. Each ad square accepts any HTML/JavaScript code, so it will work with standard affiliate ads, or even with ad network codes. You can also configure the widget to shuffle the positioning of your squares if you like.

Note – that one is activated, I haven’t added it to my sidebar yet because I don’t need any extra spots for advertisers yet.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s "Comments" admin screen.

I’m pretty sure everyone on the planet has Akismet installed, but just in case, there you have it.

AnyFont

AnyFont allows you to automatically set any custom TrueType or OpenType font absolutely anywhere you want on your WordPress site.

AnyFont is really awesome.  I used it a lot with my last theme.  You can upload a font to your site (no one else has access to it, so no copywrite violations), then AnyFont turns your titles/menu/etc into an image, using that font that you selected to write the words.  You know how if you specify a font that is uncommon that if someone doesn’t have that font on there computer that it won’t show it in that format, worse, it can show up as giberish.  AnyFont gets rid of that problem with the turning of the title into an image.

I will say, I don’t have it activated with this theme.  It looked funny on the dark background with pixelated white around the letters.  For a white background, it rocks.

Blog Engage Widget – because I am huge fan of Blog Engage. Need an invite? Let me know!

Broken Link Checker

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

I just came across that one and I love it already.  I have had my blog for over 4 years.  Do you know how many broken links will be had in 4 years?  Over 1000.  That’s not counting redirects.  I unlinked the broken links, relinked the ones I knew who had changed their domain, and fixed the redirects. Awesome!

Collapsing Categories

This is a very simple plugin that uses Javascript to form a collapsable set of links in the sidebar for the categories. Every post corresponding to a given category will be expanded.

I am not a huge fan of the way this appears in my sidebar, but that being said, it does the job and it is more appealing than 100 categories going down my sidebar.  My sidebar is long enough as it is.  All of my reviews I do are under the parent category reviews, then split into their own sub category.  You are able to expand it rather than have it go on and on and on.  If you know of one that looks better, let me know.

Comment Luv

This plugin will visit the site of the comment author while they type their comment and retrieve a selection of their last blog posts, tweets or digg submissions which they can choose one from to include at the bottom of their comment when they click submit.

I think that is another one most of us have installed.

Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress

This plugin provides a CAPTCHA complement to these spam detection plugins:

• If a spam detection plugin identifies a comment as spam, it will ask the commenter to complete a simple CAPTCHA.
• If they fail, then the comment will be automatically discarded or trashed (and won’t clutter up your spam queue).
• If they pass, it will be allowed into the spam queue (or approved, if you so choose).
• Meanwhile, genuine commenters (i.e., those not flagged by Akismet) will be able to comment on your site hassle-free.

I have had no problems with this one.  I have had problems with other CAPTCHA plugins, so this one left me pleasantly surprised.

Easy Icon

Easy Icon plugin help you to give your blog an icon that will be visible and attract visitor. You can choose any files within (jpg,gif,png,or ico) format for your icon.

Look up on your tab, you’ll see my little button.  That’s Easy Icon at work.

Efficient Related Posts

Efficient Related Posts moves all this effort into the admin section, finding related posts when a post is saved rather than when the user views it. The advantage is that if the query is slow it happens less often and the post writer is the one that waits rather than the user (which I think is WAY better).

I’ve used other related posts plugins.  This one is by far my favorite, especially in appearance.  It just has a neater appearance than the one I used to use.

Facebook Fan Box

If you have a page in Facebook about your blog and want to show the Facebook Fan Box with the recent updates and fans.

Facebook Like Button

Add Facebook Like Button to your wordpress blog with a lot of customization options, And you can preview the settings at real-time in the settings section.

I like this, but I need to figure out how to get rid of the huge space between my like button and the other content.  It’s probably something I coded wrong.

Fast Secure Contact Form

Fast Secure Contact Form for WordPress. This contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Includes a CAPTCHA and Akismet support. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Super customizable.

Love this one.  Never had a problem with it.  See it in action here.

Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

I’ll just say, I assume this one works.  I’ve had it running forever.  I know nothing about sitemaps and don’t pretend to.

Keyword Statistics

With this plugin you can optimize your WordPress blog for search engines. It can automatically generate meta informations (like keywords and description for example) needed for the search engine optimization (SEO) of your blog.

I just installed this one, I’ll leave the jury out until I’ve worked with it more.  This one may be a no-go.  I always edit my posts in Windows Live Writer, I just went to try to update one in my dashboard and I kept get a keywords statistics script is not responding error.  Need to research it a bit to see if it’s the plugin or my blog.

Limit Posts

"Limit-Post" is one of the better WordPress post content limiters we have come across both in terms of usability and size. Developed by labitacora.net "Limit-Post" provides excellent control over the post character-length and even adds the ability to create "read more …" link with a single line of code.

This one came with my current theme.  You can see it working on my front page. I like it better than whatever my old theme used to limit the size of posts.  That one was all screwed up.  It would have limit everything except for videos and then pop them in the middle of my page somewhere, on top of another post.  This one has been working really well.

LinkToThisPage

The Link To This Page WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple to use, and unobtrusive way for users to obtain a link to your page or post for their own web site.

Simple enough.  Does what it says.  Works For Me.

No Follow Case By Case

NFCBC SEO Plugin ADD-on for better comment management New (07/2009): NFCBC SEO Light is an alternative Follow/Nofollow Plugin. (Suggests follow, nofollow or no link automatically, depending on comments length.)

I have this installed because I thought it might be useful, and it probably is for other people, so I’m including it.  I’m the type though, if you leave me a legitimate comment, I’m not going to add no follow tags to your blog.  If you are coming to my blog to say, super duper article, I marked it on my google reader, and you have left the same thing on 2000 other blogs (yes, if I am not sure a comment is legit, I google the link), I throw you in spam.  I don’t even let the comment get through.  If I let those kind of comments through this would come in handy, since I don’t, I haven’t used it yet.

Platinum SEO Pack

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

I hear I need this.  I’ve had it for a long time.  I’m assuming it works.

Popularity Contest

Which of your posts/pages are most popular?

Popularity Contest keeps a count of your post, category and archive views, comments, trackbacks, etc. and uses them to determine which of your posts are most popular.

This one came with my current theme.  I did not know I needed it, but it’s interesting, and depressing, to see how (un)popular my posts are.

Quick Cache

If you care about the speed of your site, Quick Cache is one of those plugins that you absolutely MUST have installed. Quick Cache takes a real-time snapshot ( building a cache ) of every Page, Post, Category, Link, etc. These snapshots are then stored ( cached ) intuitively, so they can be referenced later, in order to save all of that processing time that has been dragging your site down and costing you money.

Another one I heard I MUST have.  I haven’t noticed any difference in my site, which means that it must be working.

ReplyMe

Send a email to author automatically while someone reply his comment. You can custom the content what you send. Note: You must enable threaded (nested) comments and deactivate the plugin like `Wordpress Thread Comment`.

I recently installed this one and I LOVE it!  I was looking for something to take over where Intense Debate left off.  Intense Debate was awesome, but I do giveaways on my blog.  At the time I was using it, Intense Debate didn’t number the comments.  I was not going to count all the comments to get to the winner, so I uninstalled it.  I wanted something though where I could just go threw the comments and leave a reply to each, that would send the commenter a notification that I had replied.  This works perfectly!

SEO Slugs

The SEO Slugs WordPress plugin removes common words like ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘in’ from post slugs to improve search engine optimization.

They say it improves SEO, it does what it says, I’m not sure how much improvement I have, but every little bit helps.

Sociallist

SocialList.org spreads your content across the Internet by making it easier for your website visitors to share it with other people. Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links.

Table Of Contents Creator

Table of Contents Creator (TOCC) automatically generates a highly customizable dynamic site wide table of contents that is always up-to-date. All entries are navigable making your site very SEO friendly.

See this one in action here.

Top Commenters Widget

The Top Commentators Widget a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site.

Just a little bit of fun.

Twitter Link Comments

This plugin will add an extra field to your comment form so a user can add their Twitter username. A user configured ‘follow me’ link is then displayed along with their details on all their comments.

Also nice to know.

WordPress Database Backup

WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database.

This one is hugely important to me.  Yes, I can back up going through my CPanel, but I also back up with this.  After that whole mess with my host going down and thinking I had lost my entire blog?  I will never ever go through again.

WP-Optimize

WP-Optimize is a wordpress 2.7++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn’t require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue, un-approved comments within few clicks.

No idea, but I like it.  I never realize how many drafts of the same post are stored on my blog.

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress site.

Seems silly to get so happy or such a simple thing.  In my last theme, you had to go through my archives to read old posts.  This one, at the bottom of the home page, you can go back as far as you want.  This came with my current theme to.  Never knew how much I needed it until I got it without knowing it.

ETA – Just added after I posted this post today, thanks to Moomette’s blog post about it today.

NoFollow Reciprocity

Most big sites by default use ‘nofollow‘ tags therefore not trusting external links nor users that post those links there. This means that they don’t give any credit (in the form of PageRank) to those links and are essentially considering them spam (as that was ‘officially’ the purpose of ‘nofollow’ tag introduction – actually messing with the blogging community search engine rankings was the real purpose). This results in their pages appearing higher in search engine results and your pages appearing lower.

This plugin detects links to above mentioned sites, and puts ‘nofollow’ tags on them. ‘Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.’ WordPress is a major blogging platform, with millions of users. If many people using WordPress use this plugin, other big sites may reconsider their ‘nofollow’ strategy. This plugin expands on Wikipedia nofollow plugin hacked by a revolted blogger.

Sounds good to me!  Thanks for sharing it with us Moomette!

So there is my list of the WordPress plugins that I actually use on my blog.

What am I missing from my list?  You know, like WP-PageNavi above that I didn’t even know I needed but couldn’t blog without now that I have it.

What plugins do you use that you couldn’t blog without?

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