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Comment on Childcare vouchers companies: cost to employers by Ben

Ben — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:24:33 +0000

Hi Malcolm,

Maybe it’s also a good idea to cover other factors, such as the provision of vouchers online, easy management of scheme, promotional help, telephone and online suppprt, along with a great rate of course.

You missed one too: Early Years Childcare Vouchers, http://www.childcare-vouchers.net/ - these guys are 5%.

Thanks for the post

Comment on Event tyres review: buying tyres online by Ali Coulson

Ali Coulson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:35:11 +0000

I’ve used Event Tyres today - I thought the service was brilliant - competitively priced, hugely helpful (I’m a bit of a dimwit about cars, and had to ring them to ask where I might find my locking wheel nut adapter - they were lovely, in the face of my own dimness!), they turned up today exactly on time and were cheery and fast. You can’t ask for more than that.

Comment on Nofollow and internal redirects: sites that accept links - but don’t link out fairly by Guardian hides user profiles from google. An SEO trick? » &#9734 malcolm coles &#9734

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:49:22 +0000

[...] Some sort of SEO trick to avoid linking out to other sites, as per my previous [...]

Comment on Unique meta description and meta keywords in your Wordpress themes by Description Meta Tag Missing - No Wordpress Plugin | SEO - janet bartoli roussos

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:51:57 +0000

[...] know that the default for most WordPress themes is to NOT include a META description? Why you ask? I found this blog to help sort this out and I agree with what Malcolm says. If you have ever built your blog from [...]

Comment on Event tyres review: buying tyres online by Brian

Brian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:10:00 +0000

Thanks for this - Ive used them too for my new tyres, and just as you said they were good.

Comment on Nofollow and internal redirects: sites that accept links - but don’t link out fairly by Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:31:10 +0000

Sumesh: when I’ve installed the nofollow plugin I’ll get round to doing that …

Forrest: perhaps I didn’t phrase it that well. I was just trying to highlight sites that suck up inbound links and deliberately avoid linking out properly. Although there are some sites that don’t accept links - or at least there were in 2002: http://www.dontlink.com/

Comment on Nofollow and internal redirects: sites that accept links - but don’t link out fairly by Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:28:06 +0000

I don’t understand what you mean about sites ‘accepting’ links and not handing them out? Were you hoping these sites wouldn’t accept incoming links, that they would be rejected? Does anyone think the BBC should send out “cease and desist” letters to any person who creates a link to one of their stories…??

Somebody left a comment “At least with the sites you have listed a webmaster should know that if they link to the site they won’t get an open link back.” which begs almost the same question. Does anybody in SEO land honestly believe that all you have to do is place a link to the BBC and they’ll return the favor? Does anybody in SEO land know what the BBC is? They’re not some useless web directory…

There’s more to life than hyperlinks. If you don’t believe that, you’re going to be frustrated trying to get them out of people who do believe it.

Comment on Unique meta description and meta keywords in your Wordpress themes by Sumesh

Sumesh — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:22:02 +0000

Some hacking there but you don’t have to jump through the hoops. Several plugins (eg: All In One SEO) offer this functionality and more without the hacking.

Comment on Nofollow and internal redirects: sites that accept links - but don’t link out fairly by Sumesh from BlogCreativity

Sumesh from BlogCreativity — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:18:39 +0000

Thanks for the comment on my blog

Yes, I still nofollow comment links on Blog Creativity, but the reason for that is that a large number of commenters are undeserving - one or two comments and they’re off to someone else’s site for links. I’m thinking of setting a larger number of comments, say 8, before the commenter gets dofollow links.

Ironically, you’ve not linked to any of the site that you mentioned above (BBC, Wikipedia etc.)

. I’d have linked to them but with a nofollow - a better choice than no links.

Comment on Nofollow and internal redirects: sites that accept links - but don’t link out fairly by Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:47:16 +0000

HissingSid: True. But sites like wikipedia rely on other people’s work as sources for their information. The original source gets no link benefit - and Wikipedia appears at the top of the search results for many terms, because it’s an easy place for webmasters to link to (many of whom don’t know what nofollow is if they’re just running a blog).

I just noticed this site - for people who support turning nofollow off on blogs, and finding a better way to fight spam: http://www.bumpzee.com/no-nofollow/.

I submitted by business to the freeindex recently. Spent ages filling it in, and then discovered they only link to you if you link to them with a huge logo! So that’s half an hour I’ll never get back.