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:
Click to Embiggen’
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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Monday Jun 30, 2008
I have to say that I finally got the job that works for me. Great people to work with. A rewarding feeling after the day is over. Great Pay and benefits. What more can I ask for?
How about a video? With Exclusive never before seen working environments!
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Sunday Jun 29, 2008
I’m all for a little rain every now and again, but this is ridiculous! It’s been raining for the past week now! OK, sure, there’s been a break in the rain every once in awhile, but I’m starting to forget what the sun feels like.
The long term forecast doesn’t look promising either as you can see from my desktop weather widget. I really, really, really hope that they are wrong about Tuesday though. Or at least wrong for Tuesday night so I can go watch the fireworks display for Canada Day. I would like to go there and take some video and pictures of the show.
There are a lot of events that are supposed to take place on Tuesday (Canada Day) too. There’s a block party, which you can watch on the web cam under the Officers Square cam, and maybe you’ll even catch the fireworks on the SJ River cam too.
I think we’ve had enough rain anyway. It’s cooling down a bit too much and it’s making things feel all damp all the time.
Anybody out there feel like taking away this gloomy weather? It’s yours if ya’ want it.
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Saturday Jun 28, 2008
So I have had the web cam running for just over a month now and not one view was recorded into the logs. I was wondering why for the longest time too.
Every time I went to the page, it was working, so I just assumed it was working for the rest of the world.
I was wrong.
Last night I was chatting with Corey and we half arsed tried to get it to work, but we both were a bit under the influence to say the least. But we were on the right track as far as what the problem was though.
It had to do with some port forwarding because of the router that I have to connect my PC to my PlayStation 3.
Well today I have it fixed and it is working properly again. I know that the web cam is working because I had it tested by John Raul from the Philippines.
So if you want to watch the Cat Cam or Me sometimes, you can visit the web cam page since it’s working again.
Posted by MacBros | Under Beer, Weird, Work | - 119 Peepers read this post.
Friday Jun 27, 2008
I had a rough night last night.
I went to bed at an early 8pm Thursday night only to be awaken by some excruciating pain at 11pm. It was like I was in labor every few minutes. The pain had me in the fetal position and whimpering like a wounded animal.
I ended up going into the bathroom and sitting on the can but all that happened was repeated bouts of gut wrenching pain. The cramps were unbearable at times but nothing would go.
Normally when a person gets cramps, they go take a crap, but this wasn’t happening for me. Just the pain and the sounds of stomach squirting went on inside.
After the 3rd hour of this, I was starting to get worried that I was going to be in a position that I would not be able to go into work. I really didn’t want to miss the day, because I didn’t want to be sick just weeks into the new job. So I just kept making the trips to the toilet in hopes something would end up going through and all this cramping would end.
It didn’t happen till about 2am. The squirt factory opened! That’s when I REALLY started to feel bad. The painful cramps persisted and they were accompanied by gushes of jet shit.
So essentially the water broke. The contractions were still going and the squirts went on also.
Finally around 2:30am, things felt better and I managed to go back to sleep. Only to be awaken again at 4am. I was really at the point of desperation. I wanted it to end. I didn’t want to miss the days work either, so I stayed up and waited it out.
It was time to get ready for work. Stomach in pain and having the sick feeling, plus the bouts of some really fast Jet Shit. I looked in the mirror and saw something that was really weird.
It looked like I went through some Botox Sessions while I was in labor or asleep.
My allergies (I think) made my eye lids puff up. I had Asian Eyes or Eskimo Eyes!
I don’t know what the hell was going on but the inside part of my eyes, near the bridge of my nose were puffing up like crazy. There wasn’t any itching though, which is strange when you think about allergies. Was it related to the cramping???
I was concerned about the puffing of the eyes. I made a note to watch them in case they got worse. thankfully they didn’t.
I went to work and did my thing. Thankfully today was a SLOW day.
I drank some Ginger Ale to settle my stomach which actually worked a bit.
I am happy to say that at around 12PM, I gave birth. And I felt a lot better.
Good enough to celebrate with some nice cold Keiths!
I’ll also be editing video and making music tonight. All can be viewed on the cam pages.
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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.
DragonLady
teeni
MrCorey
Uhh Yeah
skye
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.
The long term forecast doesn’t look promising either as you can see from my desktop weather widget. I really, really, really hope that they are wrong about Tuesday though. Or at least wrong for Tuesday night so I can go watch the fireworks display for Canada Day. I would like to go there and take some video and pictures of the show.
So I have had the 
I had a rough night last night.
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