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23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

First: The following plugins only apply for self-hosted WordPress blogs. WP Ban simplifies the amount of time it takes me to weed through comments Akismet treats as spam, by banning anyone by IP address, host name, user agent, or referer URL. Three notes before continuing. This plugin turns off that line of code.

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

Leave Blog Comments Most blog comments are nofollowed (this means search engines aren’t supposed to give weight to the link, though I believe Yahoo and Bing still do) so they don’t provide much link juice directly. target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> 160 Comments Carla says: February 23, 2010 at 6:37 pm Excellent article as always.

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