I Vant to Drink Your Blood!

10 Feb, 2008  Opinion

I know its not Spring yet, but I decided to do some cleaning all the same. Yep, Spring has sprung at NSM. Sorry, just needed to say that. Anyways, quickly moving on … I have taken it upon myself to start harvesting the pr juice (pixy dust, page strength etc…) of this site. It has been a common occurrence recently as I have noticed a few other seo companies go down the same route.

vampire smurf

I have posted about it, heck I tell clients about it but have never found the time to actually listen to my own advice. So, while I was in nofollow mode I eventually came to the blog part of the site. “What do I do here?” I mused. My whole concept with the blog is to allow those that want to spend the time posting decent comment(s) in exchange for a link back to their site.

I’m not interested in RSS subscriptions. The blog is not monetised in any shape or form. The primary focus of the NSM Blog is to help with the rankings of the main site (such as search engine optimisation etc … :) ).

So, do I want to run nofollow here. If I’m smart I would. So, not being smart I decided against it. ;) I want to retain a sense of community. That side is important to myself.

But what I have done is kill the comments on blog posts greater than 2 months old. The original comments remain but the ability to add new comments I have removed.

Why? We’ll I have been getting quite a lot of attention from Eastern European spammers. Hence, the title of this post (look I know its weak but its just gone 7 on a Sunday morning and I have only had 1 coffee so far). I do try and maintain a high administration on blog posts (when you run a dofollow blog you have to).

So, this seemed a natural step in removing the facility to those pages that have accumulated some form of page strength. I might even consider reducing this from 2 months to just 4 weeks if I’m going to continue with dofollow.

Anyways, I’m going to hit publish now and time when this thing hits the serps as there has been a good debate going on about Google indexing fresh content something I noticed several weeks back in this post.

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