Comments on: Join The WordPress Web Hosting Debate

By: Keith from shrewdies

Keith from shrewdies — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:31:32 +0000

Well it shows people how to fill in the forms at the end of your affiliate links, but “how to install and set up WordPress”

I don’t think so.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:14:34 +0000

I created a tutorial on my blog on how to install and set up WordPress. This tutorial is geared toward business owners who want to set up their own website at a low cost.

By: Keith from shrewdies

Keith from shrewdies — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:41:11 +0000

Cheers Mike,

I have a little project planned for some fast ways to generate quality content. I’m not sure if I’ll get round to it this week, as I’m trying to tie up loose ends on many projects before my birthday weekend. Hopefully, I’ll still be in a fit state next week to get it moving.

By: Mike @ Exotic Travel Club

Mike @ Exotic Travel Club — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:25:58 +0000

Thanks a bunch for your input. Its really great to find people who are helpful and friendly on the Internet! I am fairly new in the web creation business, but I find it to be a lot of fun. And I’m learning a lot as I go along. You have an interesting site and I’ll keep my eye on it from time to time. Thanks again.

By: Keith from shrewdies

Keith from shrewdies — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:17:09 +0000

I guess it doesn't matter too much.

I used to use Dofollow, but switched because I liked the extra features of NOFF. Not only does it give a Top Commenters widget, which saves an additional plugin, it also allows you to set thresholds. I have set these very low, so registered users always get nofollow removed, and guests get it removed after posting twice. Once this site gets busy (dream on! :wink:), I'll probably increase the threshold for guests.

On the other hand, Top Commenters plugin does give you a lot more options over the basic NOFF offering. I have not studied these in detail, but if they give you an advantage, then I would keep the Top Commenters plugin, and ignore the NOFF widget.

By: Mike @ Exotic Travel Club

Mike @ Exotic Travel Club — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:13:51 +0000

Hi Keith, I forgot to mention in my original comment that I also have a plugin called Dofollow. Do you advise then switch to using NoFollowFree to take the place of Dofollow and TopCommenters?
Thanks for all the good advice. I’m going to have to work on these ideas
to improve my site. Getting more top quality travel content is a great
idea. It gives me some ideas on how to expand my site. Thanks,Mike

By: Keith from shrewdies

Keith from shrewdies — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:18:59 +0000

Yes it will do more. In fact, it is vital if you want to attract more commenters.

As the KeywordLuv author notes:

For your commentators to benefit from KeywordLuv, your blog requires a separate Dofollow plugin to remove the nofollow tag. KeywordLuv does not do this

NoFollowFree has it’s own top commenters widget, so you can remove one plugin. I use NoFollowFree because it gives flexibility in settings between registered users and guests. Thus, because you are a guest, you still have a nofollow tag on your link comment, but if you register, it gets removed. It should also get removed if you add more than 1 comment as a guest.

I do this to encourage people to join, but if you want to just encourage comments, then you can set both thresholds to 0. If you are encouraging registrations, I strongly recommend the SABRE plugin, as the spammers will soon pick on you for being generous with the nofollow.

Remember, you are not going to attract many comments without content that encourages it. You need many more pages. Also, you need to build trust. At the moment, your only travel page is a hard sell for your monetization model. What you really need is to attract travel fans with top quality travel content, then drop them the money saving link – or even add some mystery by telling them the link is in your newsletter sign-up confirmation page. As an aside on that, you do not need to produce a newsletter right now – I had one site where my first issue came 18 months after I put up the subscription page.