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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Create a complete AboutUs.org listing and get a dofollow link!

AboutUs.org lets you create a wiki like listing for your domain... its also a nice way to get a strong backlink if you complete your profile and ask the nofollow to be removed... but after their promoted listing service got knocked by Google for being too close to selling links they were forced to turn nofollow back on for the entire site.

Exactly about 2.7685 hrs ago i got this email

DoFollow links are back on AboutUs.org!

From:Kristina Weis - AboutUs

I am happy to say that we reinstated DoFollow links today on AboutUs.org. All community-created pages that previously had followed links should have them again.

Moving forward, we will continue following links for good sites that we notice have good content on AboutUs. Whenever you create a nice page for a reputable site let us know at help@aboutus.org and we will verify the site's quality and remove the NoFollow attribute.

We should have a blog post about this tomorrow afternoon at http://blog.aboutus.org/ but I wanted to let you know about this change right away because I recalled that you cared about it.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Best,
Kristina Weis
http://AboutUs.org/KristinaWeis

I had previously asked about the dofollow links disappearing so it nice to see they have been turned back on now... so if you have a site and a looking to increase visibility and get a quick link dont forget to create your domains profile

CarterCole.com's AboutUs.org Profile

Monday, March 29, 2010

Cooler default avatars for Blogger comments... all in one line

Ive felt bad for not posting so heres another quick fix i just added to my Blogger blogs (i know you can barely tell but it is) Heres how it goes... the comments use the default

Like this:

but thats not very pretty so i wrote this small little script up real quick its fast easy to implement and only injects itself when its needed... the conditional statement makes sure it will only display when comments are showing...

i found this really cool service Retro Avatar i told it to generate with transparency so it will go with any design and works with only one line of code

to add it simply go to "Edit HTML" under "Layout" in your Blogger dashboard and add it somewhere above the </body> tag

and thats it no more ugly comments and the cool thing is they will all be unique to the username that commented because the design is generated from the users name... way cool

thats it ill be on twitter as @cartercole if you need me ill try to come up with something else for your real soon...
comment so you can test it and see your icon (but it only works if you dont have one set)

Sunday, September 27, 2009

verifying blog at technorati | ctbxyj27ev

This post was originally me verifying my blog at technorati but i guess ill explain how i did it... basically i got an account went to verify blog and then made a post with the title and text the verification code below i gave them my RSS feed and Boom! i had a verified blog...

ctbxyj27ev

i found this thing to send a vote for your blog out to Technorati favorites
heres how you can get your own for your blog! [ be sure to click mine above lolz :) ]