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17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog

Ari Herzog

Simple Trackback Validation is gobbledygook that reduces spam trackbacks by confirming the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the address of the web server the URL is referring, and then checking the remote web page and ensuring that page has a link to this blog. This is used a few times to change the taxonomy.

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23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

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. Top Commentators ascertains who are the top people who wrote comments over a given period, with links to whatever URL they wrote when commenting.

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

If I take that URL and do a link search in Yahoo (they shows more backlinks than Google) I can find link sources I can also use: The operator I use in Yahoo is simply “link: pageurl -site: domain.com &# (no quotes) obviously changing the parts in bold for the site that is actually ranking for your keyphrase. Keep sharing the knowledge!

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