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The NOFOLLOW Mythology

Posted 11th February 2012 at 11:36 AM by pbarnhart

From a comment I made in a WF discussion.

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Originally Posted by Ord Allenbea View Post
One: The follow / no follow means nothing at all and you still get credit for the link. This is one of those myths started by SEO people to sell their services.
Ord Allenbea's conclusion about quality content is dead-on. But the first statement about follow and nofollow is a fast-growing and erroneous statement. Per Google:

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In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or
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Has your site been hacked? Check Your PC

Posted 31st January 2012 at 08:22 AM by pbarnhart

If your site has been hacked, its possible you have a Trojan running on your own computer. Unfortunately, no single solution seems to stop everything

Here is a list I recommend for PC owners to run:

Webroot isn't enough.

Run Belarc: http://download.cnet.com/Belarc-Advi...-10007277.html

Then Malwarebytes: http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebyte...-10804572.html

Then Microsoft's...
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Snake Oil, Vitamin X, and PowPow Doctors

Posted 8th January 2012 at 04:00 PM by pbarnhart

I spend an inordinate amount of time with clients dealing with urban myths, legends, half-truths, and unsubstantiated claims. Often, they have spent a considerable portion of their advertising budget on snake oil.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Kill Fees and Clients

Posted 1st January 2012 at 07:16 PM by pbarnhart

Do you have clients? If you do, you no doubt do proposals, mockups, designs, drafts, etc.

I have a simple statement on my client's contract that if I don't get the dev work, the design can be licensed in perpetuity for XX$ but that the license is not exclusive. ONCE I had a client steal a design and give it to another design firm. I asked them for the license fee and took them to small claims court when they ignored me. Won the fee plus expenses.

I almost always...
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Checkout TubePress for Video Content

Posted 28th December 2011 at 03:30 PM by pbarnhart

In answering a question here on the forum, I had a chance to revisit TubePress. I had used it in its earliest version - and wow, has it progressed.

If you are creating an aggregation or similar site and want to collect and manage available YouTube and Vimeo - the free plugin functionality will do an immense amount of work for you.

TubePress. Beautiful video galleries on your site.

Notice: no affiliation.
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