Word Press has nofollow tag associated with all the links in comments by default. For those who have no idea what nofollow tag is, its a simple html tag that stops the google bot from going futher to the link in which this tag is used.

nofollow tag is used as rel=”nofollow” attribute and its example is like

<a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>My Site</a>

Basic usage of this tag, as defined by Google at their official blog, is to prevet spamming on blogs in form of comments. No doubt if you are a blogger you come across a lot of spammy messages even if you have not discarded the default nofollow tag.

What i was trying to get is that what are the results if i change the default option to dofollow, its not a tag but only a term used to specify that my blog is no more having nofollow tag for links in comments. Basic reason for changing and asking you to change is that if someone is commenting something helpful then whats wrong in giving him a backlink.

Moreover if you are using dofollow option then there is more chance that a person will comment something positive adding to your content. No doubt content is the king for any website and if you are getting some unique content from a visitor for a cost of link then there is nothing wrong in it.

It may be difficult for a real big blog with huge traffic but for a lower traffic blog or midium traffic blog, it is going to be beneficial. At least what i have read on forums, say so. You may have to give some extra time in filtering comments but their will be more number of useful comments, i guess.

If you have decided to give it a try then just go for it. You need to simply install and activate the plugin.

Click here to get SemiLogic Word Press dofollow Plugin

Three Days ago when i was just checking my email, one of my friends told me that picking a specific mobile call can cause death so don’t pick any call having some annonymous number. I was just amazed at reading this info on my messenger. He added that television has casted a news regarding this claiming the death of some people who had answered to some unknown callers.

This rumor was spread via a text message which was probably forwarded by most of people as a funny thing or some did it to ’secure’ their loved ones. Actual text that i came to know was:

“Don’t pick any call of *88888888 as its some type of a virus which damage the brains cells and kills persons. As some high tone sound or some thing produce when u pick the calls it damage or burst he brain in few seconds”

The rumor was so effective that some mosques in the country’s biggest city, Karachi, made announcements that people were being killed by a mobile virus and they must not use their mobiles. Call centers of all the operators (Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor, Warid, Paktel) were bombarded with the same question whether this is true or not???

Even a local newspaper published that it is a revenge of some ghosts who are angry at telecom boom because some of BTS (Base Tranciever Stations, tower in simple words) were erected in some graveyard!

All this is simply a stupid thing to forward and any body recieving such a message must not forward that to others because it just makes a chain process and this is one of SMS rumor spreading. Currently there are more than 52 million mobile users among 160 million people in Pakistan.

The cellular operators moved to calm down subscribers and said in a joint statement: “These rumors are completely baseless. They do not make any sense in technological terms.”

ICC worldcup is getting into interesting round this time as super eight round is started. If you have interest in cricket and can’t watch match due to any reason but you are having internet access (may be at university or office), I am sure you are visiting cricinfo.com regularly. But sometimes it may not be feasible to open up a page.

Here I have found a little solution for that. All you need is Firefox. If you are not having Firefox and then Get it from here. You need to get this extension after you have installed Fire Fox:

Get Score Card Extension Here

This is not a complete or even a good solution but it atleast gives you idea or let it say a reminder what your favourite team is doing!. It only gives score and number of wickets lost as given in following screen shot:

Its quite an interesting day history of Cricket that two big teams are defeated by the weaker teams on the same day. Pakistan lost its match to Ireland and India is defeated by Bangladesh. Both Pakistan and India batted first and there strong batting lineups were collapsed badly.

This has become even worse for Pakistan who had already lost their first match to West Indies and now they are out of worldcup. This is no doubt their worst performance since they are playing cricket. Now after their departure to Pakistan, there will take place a lot of changes from top to bottom in the infrastructure of Pakistan Cricket and their cricket board.

As far as India is concerened, they are still in the tournament having a chance to come back. What they need to do is to win the next match with a large margin against Bermuda and then they have to win from Srilanka otherwise they will also be back to home.

Any body who has put his head in online world for earnings, always try to find new ways and methods for earning more and more $$$. There are no doubt countless ways to get some money in your account and every method is not for every one. May be the way I am earning a lot, does’t pay you and there may be a method that is beneficial for you but does’t suit me. I just came across a new way of earning dollars some days ago while going through Digital Point Forums.

If you are a good designer and has capability to design a good looking website template, then it may be a good way for you to earn. All you need to do is to design a WordPress theme that looks attractive and has tendency to compell others to use it. No doubt the design must be bug free and good looking. Once you’re completed with your theme then go to DP forums’ Buy-Sell-Trade place and sell one or two sponser links on your WordPress theme.

You may think why people will pay for it??? Answer is that you can easily upload your theme at following places:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/Theme_List
http://themes.wordpress.net/
http://www.themesbase.com
http://themes.blogflux.com/

And people can dowload that or free. Roughly 70% of webmasters would not remove the sponser links and it would give a large number of sitewide back links to your sponser. You can make some more points at your selling thread to make your case more strong and sale more fruit ful. I have seen those Sponser links sold as high as 200$.

In all this procedure, what you have to do after making a very good looking them is that you must make a demo page to actually experience the people your theme. Also try to limit your number of sponser links to one or two. Because if you have designed a theme you will be putting your own link in the footer as well and more number of links will decrease your price. Also if there are more number of links in the footer, then a user who has downloaded that theme will try to remove those links.

In simple words, ping (in blogging world) means to notify a server about some update in your blog. In WordPress Blogs there is an option of auto pinging when ever a post is made. Here is list of that Ping server that can be used. Simply copy/paste it to your ‘Update Service’ text box available under your Writing options in Manage tab of you Word Press Back end Control Panel.

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogupdate.org/ping
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.myblog.jp/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://www.packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php
http://godesigngroup.com/blog/feed/

If you own a website or more, then you must be knowing that the most important thing you need to have, after your website is created, is trafic i.e. visitors. To gain some high traffic you need to get your website ranked well in a Search Engine. Obviously i am not telling a new story, most of you already know about it. Also you have idea that having back links improves your PR at Google and hence your site may be up in ranking for your keywords. And it is open secret that to have higher PR, you need more and more back links.

Having one way back links is not an easy task. It needs some effort anyway. A common way adopted by many is to submit links to directories and there are thousands of directories on web at this time. When you plan to submit your site to many direstories, its never difficult to have a directory list. Many sites are serving high quality directory list that offer free submisssion. Only problem is that it takes time and effort.

To submit a website to certain directories, there may be two ways i.e. either manually or by using software. I have’t been able to find a good software for this purpose which is available free of cost. And if you tend to add website manually it is never easy. Simplest way to submit is to copy paste all information or make use of auto content saving option. Some people may try to use Google Toolbar’s autofil option as well. But all these don’t work in all circumstances.

One easier way i found today needs you to be a Fire Fox user. Its nothing but a Fire Fox adon that makes life easier by fecilitating the filling of form quite quickly. Just download it from the following url and install;

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/673/

After installation you will find an icon in your status bar. On clicking it you will be able to customize your profile and contents in a profile. In your page there will also be that small blue icon and you will be able to fill each input box using that icon easily. You can have multiple profiles for different sites to be added in directories. And you can also use it for other form filling purposes as well. A little snpshot of it is given below.

I had just got it in my Orkut’s Scrapbook:
Just follow the procedure and you will end up with your phone number which must be 7 digit to make it work;

1. Key in the first three digits of your phone number into a calculator. (do not use your area code number)
2. Multiply by 80
3. Add one
4. Multiply by 250
5. Plus last four digits of your phone numbe.
6. Plus last four digits of your phone number again.
7. Minus 250.
8. Divide by 2.

Whats result??
Is it your phone number?

If you have not yet decided what domain name is required and is best suitable for your bussiness, you may need to go through the way to choose a domain name. But if you have decided, then don’t wait for long.  Hundreds of domain are being sold now a days and you may loose your choosen domain name within a matter of one day. I would say that Don’t put off your domain registration process till tomorow.

For domain registration you need to find a domain registrat and there are many online. One that I use is Dynadot because they offer me to buy domains via Moneybookers as well. You can use any website to search for the availabilty of domain name. I like to use Domain Tools for this purpose. They give you many related options as well for free.

So don’t make it late and grab you domain name.

Joomla is probably the mostly used Content management system worldwide at this time. I came across Joomla about six months ago and i just made about 3 sites using that. This software has a lot of extensions and plugins/extensions to make it functional in many ways. So if you have’t used it yet, i would recommend you to give it a try. You can get it from Joomla’s official site.

A site made using Joomla consists of two major things, if you are going to migrate your site from one server to another i.e. Joomla files and Database. So its quite simpler to switch server if required. Simply download all of your files and upload to new server and export your database and get it up on your new server. This is four step procedure that makes your site up on new server BUT all this can take a lot of your time.

Another way to accomplish this task may be to use a component. If you search through Joomla extensions, there are many components availale with both commercial and free license. You don’t need to spend money for this simple thing. One extension i found useful is Joomla Pack. It can not only be used for migration but you can use it for your regular backups as well. So the whole thing is divided in two steps:

1. Taking Backup

2. Uploading Backup file to new server

Taking Bakup:

After you have downloaded and installed the component, simply go to components in navigation bar and click JoomlaPack to open component page.

There you will some buttons and configuration details. Your temp folder located at ‘administrator/components/com_jpack/temp’ must be CHMOD to 755. This is the destination folder where backup files will be stored. You simply need to press ‘create backup’ button to start making backup file.

After pressing the shown button, it will intimate not to browse anywhere else and click to backup your site. A bar will start running on the screen showing the back up process is in process.

After the backup is complete you can download it from JoomlaPack options page easily by going to Backup Files Administration. This process will only take about 5 minutes + download time at your internet speed. You can do it on daily basis to make sure that your precious articales are not lost.

Uploading to new Server:

Simply Upload the archive file to new destination where you want you site to run. In Cpanel there is option of unzipping the archive file. Make use of it and unzip your backupfile. It will be along with installation folder. Simply Install the Joomla site as you had done before.

Most important thing is that you must use the older login details. While installing on new server DON’T use a new password. It’s not gonna work with that.

Delete the installation folder (hmm it’s quite obvious) and one more important thing is that you must recheck your Global settings after successful installation.  It makes the whole process over.