If you were with me on the money train, when sponsored posts were just hitting the scene. You were enjoying every minute and the cash flow was awesome! Especially if you had a PR of 5 or more like I did.
But all of a sudden, Google decided to slap all of us around for making money from advertisers instead of using their AdSence service. At least that’s the way it felt anyway. But the truth of the matter was that we were all breaking Google’s TOS with link farming tactics and didn’t really know about it. At least I didn’t know. But it was in their TOS about using the rel=”nofollow” when linking to other sites, especially when you were being paid for them. Google wants people to link to other sites without being paid, so the PR is true as far as popularity goes. At least that’s the way I understand it anyway.
So here we are. PR stripped away like the rank from a soldiers sleeve. How humiliating right? If we only knew in advance. Or if we were aware in advance. OK, if I wasn’t so stupid, I would have added the rel=”nofollow” tag OK!! There. I’m an idiot, and I’m paying the price for it now.
Some have went as far as deleting all their old sponsored posts, since most were OK to delete after 30 days with most sites, but advertisers really want them permanent and I don’t blame them. Some have also gone as far as adding the rel=”nofollow” tag to all their posts manually. Seems like a lot of work if you ask me, especially when I have over 2,400 pages to sift through!
You know what? There’s an easier way. Thanks to Miak there’s a plugin that will take care of all that for you with a simple click of the mouse.
With Miak’sNo Follow Links In Posts plug-in, you can have Wordpress automatically add the rel=”nofollow’ tag to your posts that are an X amount of days old. I have mine set to 31 days now. Because there are a few advertisers that don’t like the rel=”nofollow” tag on their sponsored posts, even though I’ll be steering clear of them in the future, but if I do have one, they’ll get 31 days without it. Thanks to SocialSpark, that’s not a problem as it is mandatory to have rel=”nofollow” in all the links.
INSTALLING IT AND USING IT:
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When you upload it to your Wordpress plugin directory and activate it, you simply go to the settings screen and select the (1) ‘Nofollow Links in Post’ link and (2) add how many days old the post needs to be before the rel=”nofollow” tag is added. I enabled (3)‘individual posts to override….’ option so I can choose to leave out the rel=”nofollow” tag in links to sites I do not wish to have the tag. You can choose (4)what categories you want the plugin to apply the rel=”nofollow” tag to also.
click to Embiggen’
(5) This is the place in the Write Post screen that gives you the option of leaving out the rel=”nofollow” tag alltogether. This is when you choose to enable (3).
There’s only one downfall with this in the future. The advertisers that paid to have the nofollow tag in their post will still likely add a ban on you from taking any more of their opportunities. So that’s something you might want to consider when using this on those type of opportunities.
Nofollow Links in Posts plugin enables you to add the “nofollow” attribute into links in a post within a specified category.
This plugin is useful if you are doing sponsored posts. You can set the plugin to add rel=”nofollow” into links in posts older than “X” days.
Currently, the plugin only works with Wordpress 2.5+. There are no plans yet in making this plugin compatible with prior versions of Wordpress.
Get the plugin by simply clicking on over to TheMiak.com. If you can spare a few extra bucks or some change, send it over their way to thank them for a great plugin that will more than likely save you a shitload of time, and possibly getting your old PR rank back again too.
I also found that in aincent times I also added some text stating the post was a paid review or a sponsored post, I didn’t want to go through all my posts and manually edit them all so I looked for an easier way and found Search and Replace. I just recommend you backup your SQL Database as this edits it directly and there’s no way to undo the changes should it crap out on you.
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Wednesday Jun 25, 2008
You’ll know what I mean when you go all day long humming the tune either out loud or in your head.
!!WARNING!! This is sticky Brain Music! (I should Coin That Phrase!) Listen at your own risk, MacBros Place will not be held responsible for any psychotic episodes caused by not being able to shake the song from your mind. Proceed at your own risk!
Enjoy!
Watch it by clicking the image or click the “Read the rest of this entry »” link if you’re not already in the full post page.
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Thursday Jun 19, 2008
If you have actually seen my desk, you would probably think that I’m a slob. I really try not to be, but for some reason my desk just piles up with receipts, manuals, scrap paper, stolen pens, and empty CD and DVD cases.
There’s an online game called Office Depot Slob’s Racing that is actually pretty fun to play. If you are also a person with a sloppy desk, then the layout of the track may look a bit familiar. I know that a few races that I have played actually looked sorta like my messy desk.
Now don’t go blaming me for being late for work, fired for playing games at work, being late for your wedding, or late defusing that bomb before the disposal guys take it away, because you were to involved in the game and wasted several hours playing. Let that be a warning to you.
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Saturday May 31, 2008
Yup, I’m back on that wobbly pop situation again…..
I woke up with a small hang over and treated it with a few beers that were left over from the previous night.
So I’m back in the saddle again!
This is actually weird because before I started to write this post and before the weekend began, I was at work saying to myself that, “I’m going to have a regular life again!”
There’s one thing that makes my regular life a bit different from the co-workers and clients that I go in to every day with, and that is that they are all VERY Christian and religious.
LOL, I can hear a lot of you right now snickering and thinking, “Woah! Bad combination and who would mix fire and water together like that?”
Thank the talent that I have at acting huh?
Well anyway. I got to thinking.. what if I decided to have fun with my friends and partied a bit too much? What if I went into work smelling of a drunken bumb from a night of boozing? Things might look different when looking at ol’ Johnny Boy huh?
I’m not saying I’m going to go into work shit faced or drunk or anything, but what if I have to go into work and still have a hangover? What if I still have booze on my breath even after brushing my teeth?
Well, guess what? I don’t worry about that shit because I have a little secret under my sleeve that I’ve known about for awhile now. I have known about this little secret for a time that kept me from being accused of being drunk in situations when the girlfriend thought I was supposed to be attending a business shin ding.
Before I mention this, I just want to say that this product DOES NOT make you sober or remove alcohol from your system.
You see, there is this stuff called AntiPoleez that will remove booze and tobacco from your breath. They’re a bit worried about it now as you can see in the following video;
Remember when you tried to sneak into the window while you were under age of drinking? Remember when you tried to say, “I was sick.” to the Boss when you were actually partying with friends? Well, this shit will help out.
People who had a few drinks and can handle themselves well, will be able to hide the point that they have been drinking with this stuff.
There is one very IMPORTANT thing to remember, and that is that AntiPoleez does NOT make your sober or improve your judgment when impared, or stoned. It just removes the smell of booze or smoke.
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If you were with me on the money train, when sponsored posts were just hitting the scene. You were enjoying every minute and the cash flow was awesome! Especially if you had a PR of 5 or more like I did.
If you have actually seen my desk, you would probably think that I’m a slob. I really try not to be, but for some reason my desk just piles up with receipts, manuals, scrap paper, stolen pens, and empty CD and DVD cases.
Yup, I’m back on that wobbly pop situation again…..
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