Blogging Tips, DoFollow Debate, and Web Design Tips Weekly Round Up April 05, 2009

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This week, I decided to change the weekly link love title and how I post my favorite reads of the week. I try and post links once a week on Sundays. The articles I post about, I feel, are some of the best articles or my favorites of the week.  But lately I have been busy through out the week and over the weekend, which can cause me not to be able to read that much or I run out of time and not be able to make any posts over the weekend. Because of this, I will be posting mostly on Sundays, but on weekends I can not post or do not have enough links for a good list of resources, I will make the post on Monday or wait till the following Sunday. The Title will be changed to weekly round up.

WordPress Tips

Six Things You Can Do To Make Your WordPress Blog Safer – Great blog post form Saksham Talwar from Blogger Junction covering 6 things you can do to make your WordPress Powered site safer and harder for hackers to breach your security.

DoFollow / NoFollow Debate

Interested in the DoFollow debate? Check out these to great articles by Keith from Hot Blog Tips wrote about the debate over DoFollow verses NoFollow. He does a great job at getting his readers to comment and explains why his site is no longer DoFollow. If anything the comments are interesting to read.

Update on Do-Follow vs. No-Follow Debate

Removing DoFollow from This Site

Nicholas Cardot of Site Sketch 101 wrote two articles about the Myths of DoFollow Verses Nofollow. His view is a bit different form Keith, but worth the read. The topics covered in the two articles are Myth #1: NoFollow Discourages Comments, Myth #2: NoFollow is Not Needed. Just Moderate Comments and Myth #3: NoFollow is Evil. You are wrong for using it.

Nofollow: Is it Really the Spawn of Satan?

Nofollow vs. Dofollow: The Verdict is In

Blogging Tips

I Did It The Hard Way – Keith from Hot Blog Tips wrote another great article about doing things the hard way and why making things easier can help us as bloggers. He makes a great point that most people do not get, its already to spend a little money to make a lot of money if you do it smartly.

How I helped Make a Bland Blog an Overnight Success – An article about blogs and sites that do not catch the users and are just plan boring will keep a site’s from being successful. Glen from ViperChill gives some great examples how to take your blog from bland to grand.

How to Stand Out in a Niche full of Jerks – Excellent post from Darren Rowse of Problogger.net , wrote about how to make your site stand out in crowd. Article covers the niche “make money online” but can work in niche were there are a lot of players. His tips can help you gain the trust of your readers.

The Houdini Guide to Getting Noticed Online – Amber Lee Fawson guest writing for CopyBlogger gives 5 tips about gaining readers through good copywriting skills.

Web Design Tips

URL Redirection in WordPress – the Problem Solution Approach – Omer from WebTechWise wrote an article about 301 redirects for WordPresss. Omer does a great at covering; what they are, why you need them, how use them, and gives a tutorial on how to code this into your WordPress driving site. If you are not using URL redirects, this is a MUST Read. I will soon be revamping my site and I will be looking closer at this tutorial.

How to Optimize CSS Selectors for a Faster Website – CSS is one of my favorite languages to use while designing a site or optimizing it for better speed. There is so much you can do with it. One easiest thing you can do to speed up your site is change the way CSS selectors are code for a site. Omer wrote a great tutorial about CSS Selector optimization using Dreamweaver.

Adding New StumbleUpon Badges To Blogs – Justin Germino of DragonBlogger.com wrote a great article about manually added the StumbleUpon code to your WordPress site. He even shares his code so if you want to set as he has his you can use it or modify it as needed.