Welcome to Internet Opportunites. If you have visited Internet Opportunities recently you are probably wondering what happened to our site. I decided to switch my site over to a blog. I feel blogs are the best way to go for marketing and information. I want to share 3 very good wordpress plugins I came across which I am using on this blog. I highly recommend them!

The first is called a follow plugin. Wordpress 1.5 comes equiped with a nofollow tag that it places on all comments and trackbacks. The no follow tag stops search engines from following any links posted in comments. The purpose is to discourage comment spam since the nofollow kills any PR benefits. Many bloggers feel the nofollow tag is a bad idea, and I agree. It may discourage some from posting real comments and contributing. It takes away from the blogging experience. This is why the follow plug in was made. It strips wordpress of all it’s nofollow tags!

The second is called bot-check. This is a better solution to fight comment spam then the stupid nofollow tag that penalizines everyone. The bot-check stops all automated blog spamming programs from posting spam because it requires a human to match the correct code before posting a comment. This is a better solution as it only penalizes spammers!

Of course there is no perfect solution, I happen to know there are programs available that can stop at blogs with bot-checks and wait for the spammer to manually match the code, and of course you can still spam manually too. But wordpress sends me an email when ever a comment is posted, I can imediately review, and delete the comment right from my email if I see it’s spam.

The third one is a cool plugin which your going to love! It’s called Adsense Deluxe, and this baby rocks! It is hands down the best adsense plug in there is! Highly configurable with multiple ad blocks. You just enter a simply code any where you want in your posts where you want adsense to appear. It has it’s own section in your control panel under Options! This one is definitely a must have!

Well that’s it for now!

Posted by Bud Wiser on Wednesday, December 31st, 1969 at 6:59 pm.