Latest: Commentary on Comments

I love getting comments here on the blog. It makes the world a little less lonely of a place. It helps motivate me to stop being lazy and write. Thank you to all of you who regularly leave comments. You guys are the best.

To encourage comments a while back I installed a “dofollow” plugin that removes the nofollow attribute tag from the links in the comment section. How should that encourage people, you ask? Well, when Google (& other search engines) is figuring out how to rank your site, it counts the number of links pointing to it. If a link has the “nofollow” attribute, then Google doesn’t count it. I’m fine with giving your site, dear reader, a [...]