Does Spam Comment Links on Blogger effect your Blog SEO or Traffic?

Bloggers probably know more
about comment spam than
anyone else. It is really
annoying to write an article
about one thing, and see
completely off-topic
comments, possibly spam
ones that make no sense
whatsoever. People usually
do it in order to increase
backlinks to their own
websites. But does that work?
And how do these spam
comments effect your
website? In this post, we'll
address some of the popular
questions regarding this
topic, and will look at how
you can help reduce
comment spam.
Effects on SEO
Speaking from a SEO
perspective, if you nofollow
blog comments, there will be
no consequences for spam
comments on your blog.
Whenever Google sees the
attribute rel="nofollow" with
a hyperlink, that links doesn't
get any credit with search
ranking.
This doesn't mean a negative
vote for the site where the
comment was posted; it's just
a way to make sure that
spammers get no benefit
from abusing public areas
like blog comments,
trackbacks, and referrer lists.
However, for the spam
commentators, if Google sees
that you have a sizable chunk
of your backlink profile
dedicated to link comments,
you're bound to get
penalized. If these links come
regularly in an unnatural
amount/manner, you'll see
your site get penalized.
What can you do?
Not much, apparently. Just
make sure that your blog
software is upto date. Major
platforms such as WordPress,
Blogger, Flickr, Live Journal,
etc have all implemented the
rel="nofollow" attribute for
comment links.
However, if you're more than
just a blog, it is
recommended that you use
the rel="nofollow" attribute
anywhere that users can add
links by themselves, including
within comments, trackbacks,
forums, testimonials, etc.
Comment areas receive the
most attention, but securing
every location where
someone can add a link is the
way to keep spammers at
bay.
So, should you put this
attribute on the link t any
comments page? Probably
not, because lots of
interesting discussion can
happen there. Also, if other
people link to your comments
page, a spider can follow that
link and find any spam that's
lurking on the comments
page.
The best places to add this
attribute are the actual links
that other people can create.
So on this page, for instance,
only the links within
comments and the link
immediately after "Posted
by:" would get the
rel="nofollow" attribute.
Google will recognize the
"nofollow" keyword even
when it's part of a space
separated list. According to
the HTML spec, the value of
the 'rel' attribute is a space
separated list of link types.
For that, Google practices
what can be described as the
"be liberal in what you
accept" philosophy, which
means recognizing spaces,
commas and, in fact, most
punctuation. But it is strongly
recommend to use spaces as
separators to follow the
specification.
So, what're your thoughts on
this? Leave your 'good'
comments in the section
below. Cheers :P

How To Show AdSense Ads On Blogger Mobile?

Bloggers
will go to
great
lengths
to
optimize
AdSense
ads on
their
websites, but many focus
their attention to desktop
version of Blogger, mostly
because it is easier to test
and preview changes.
However, they are missing on
an ever-growing percentage
of users who surf the web
with their smartphones - and
currently at around 25%
(both mobile and tablet), the
percentage is significant. If
you're a Blogger user, now
would be a great time to
enable AdSense ads on
Blogger mobile (if you haven't
already done so).
Displaying ads in mobile
version of your blogger blog
will help capitalize on all the
mobile traffic and increase
earnings. Monetizing mobile
version of your blogs requires
some understanding and use
of certain responsive web
design techniques. However,
enabling ads is easy. So this
tutorial is for those of our
readers who have asked
similar questions.
Display ads in Blogger
mobile
AdSense ads can be
displayed in mobile version of
blogger blogs by enabling
AdSense from the Earnings
menu. Follow these steps to
do this;
Go to Blogger
Dashboard >>
Earnings
Sign up or log in with your
AdSense account





Note: Sign Up for a new
AdSense account if you don't
have any, or just log in.
Remember that if your
AdSense account is disabled
(as is the case with many
bloggers), you can click on
the 'Switch AdSense' button
and setup a new account or
login with a different one. A
ban on an account doesn't
necessarily mean a ban on
the site.
Set 'Show Ads on blog' to
Yes, and in the 'Display'
drop-down, select an area
you want to show
AdSense ads in, for
example '"sidebar and
posts"
Save settings, and be
done!
Once you're done, the ads
will start showing up
automatically. Most bloggers
simply insert the ad code in
Blogger to show ads, But with
this approach, you can easily
show AdSense ads from any
account, and this will
automatically insert the ads
within the desktop and
mobile versions of Blogger.
Every blogger should
monetize their site's mobile
version because it will help
them increase their revenue.
I hope this tutorial helped. If
you have any questions,
please feel free to share
them with us. Take care :)

5 Major Disadvantages of Google Plus Comments Plugin

The
Google+
Commenting System Google
introduced a while back was
a marginal improvement over
the default Blogger
comments system and it also
looks a lot better. We earlier
shared a tutorial on how to
enable this Google Plus
commenting system for
Blogger blogs. But some
people still have problems
implementing it on custom
templates. And as it turns
out, there are certain
performance issues too. Here
are some reasons not to
implement it on your blog.
Moving your comments from
one system to another is not
as painless as you'd like it to
be. Once you implement one
system, you should pretty
much stick to it unless there's
a major problem with it.
Granted that the Google Plus
comment system is an
improvement over the
Blogger comments layout,
there are certain things you
should know before you
implement it. These things
might not bother you, but for
some users out there, these
can be a deal-breaker. So
heed well before
implementing.
Lack of moderation options
Here's one area I particularly
like to scrutinize with any
comments system. An ideal
commenting system has
moderator roles in addition to
basic moderation options.
Kinda like a forum. This
Google Plus comments
system has no such options
unfortunately.
Since people are required to
log in through Google Plus,
comments on your blog posts
are as moderable as a social
media post, say on Facebook
or Google Plus. You can't
prevent spammers, and the
only thing you can do is
delete undesirable
comments. The rest is left
upto the system, and Google
Plus will automatically hide
comments which it thinks is
spam. You can review these
hidden comments by clicking
on the blue review comments
bar.
Google Account login
That brings us to the other
problem. To make a
comment on your blog,
readers will need to have a
Google Account. If they don’t
have one, they will be forced
to create a Google account
before they can comment on
your Blog. Google is trying to
force-feed their accounts to
everybody they can!
Commenting gadgets
disabled
If you're using a custom
commenting widget on your
blog, such as a Recent
Comments plugin, it will no
longer work properly with this
new commenting system
because a majority of these
widgets depend on
the default Blogger
commenting system.
Google Plus profile
To enable the feature, you
will have to switch your
Blogger Profile to Google+.
There's another potential
pitfall. If your change your
Blog URL to a custom domain
after using Google+
Comments for a while, the G
+ comments will be lost
when you make the switch!
If you think you're all settled
in and won't be changing the
URL or anything, then you
can go ahead and implement
this new system. But don't
start using it prior to a
potential domain change.

Google Supports Locale- Aware Content Based Location

Google
has
always
been
telling
webmasters to treat its
crawlers - GoogleBot in other
words - just as you would
treat any user accessing your
website from the United
States. By default, Googlebot
requests pages without
setting an Accept-Language
HTTP request header and
uses US IP addresses. As a
result, not all content
variants of locale-adaptive
pages may be indexed
completely.
This is now going to change
because Google may crawl
your site from IP addresses
outside of the US and also
may crawl your site with
language settings outside of
English-US.
Google has announced that
they now support locale-
aware crawling by Googlebot
- this is a huge change for
internationalized sites.
What does this mean?
Some sites that offer
internationalized content do
so without sending the user
to a special URL. Google has
always preferred you set up
specific URLs or ccTLDs for
content tailored to different
countries or languages, but
many sites just dynamically
serve content on their .com
based on the IP address
origin or their browser
language configurations.
Google is now going to
support the sites that
dynamically serve
internationalized content
based on IP or language.
They will do this based on
two methods:
Geo-distributed
crawling where
Googlebot would start to
use IP addresses that
appear to be coming from
outside the USA, in
addition to the current IP
addresses that appear to
be from the USA that
Googlebot currently uses.
Language-dependent
crawling where
Googlebot would start to
crawl with an Accept-
Language HTTP header in
the request.
As these new crawling
configurations are enabled
automatically for pages
Google detects to be locale-
adaptive, you may notice
changes in how the content
on your site is crawled and
displayed in Google search
results without you altering
your server settings.
These new configurations do
not alter Google's
recommendation to use
separate URLs with
rel=alternate hreflang
annotations for each locale.
Google still supports and
recommends using separate
URLs as they are still the best
way for users to interact and
share your content, and also
to maximize indexing and
better ranking of all variants
of your content.

How Can Websites Rank Well Without Backlinks?

A large
proportion of people out
there seem to believe that
backlinks form the backbone
of a website's SEO strategy.
Having high-quality and
relevant backlinks has its
advantages, but are they a
necessity? We have talked
about this topic many times
in the past. Today, I'd like to
share highlights from Googler
John Mueller's recent hangout
where he proved that
backlinks, while important,
are not a must for ranking
well in Google!
John Mueller is the
Webmaster Trends Analyst at
Google. He shared an
instance of a website ranking
well without backlinks during
his hangout at the GooglePlex
with two of his colleagues.
Here's the video of the
hangout, with adjusted
starting position.
Someone asked at the 26
minutes and 3 seconds mark,
why does Google use links for
ranking at the level they do.
He said, Google should use
other means to rank sites. Of
course, he knows they do use
other factors but his point
was why do they place so
much weight on links.
John Mueller answered that
saying they do have tons of
other factors outside of just
links.
John then said he has a friend
of his who is “back home” in
Zurich, his friend just put up
a new web site for the local
neighborhood. The new site
does not have any links at all
and over 300 pages are
indexed and pages are
ranking and they are getting
a lot of traffic from search.
No one ever linked to the site
ever, he said, but they did
submit sitemaps to Google
and they have an RSS feed.
The web site does fairly well
without any links at all, John
said. So it is not the case you
absolutely need links to rank,
he added. John did say that

I Killed My Neighbour Bcos She Tried To Kill Me In My Dream” – Man Arrested For Murder Confesses

A young man identified as Tope Adegbehingbe, has explained why he killed his 86-year-old neighbour, Mrs Janet Oyeniyi, at Ajebambo village near Oniparaga in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. Adegbehingbe, who was arraigned before an Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday, said he murdered the octogenarian because he saw her in his dream trying to kill him. Although Adegbehingbe’s plea was not taken as the court has no jurisdiction to entertain murder trial, the accused, however, said he took the measure because the woman was a witch. The accused said he attacked the woman with machete in early hours of that fateful day. In his confessional statement made available to reporters at Oke-Eda Magistrates’ Court in Akure, yesterday, Adegbehingbe confessed that he was guilty of the murder charge brought against him. According to the prosecution counsel, the accused was alleged to have on 23rd of October, 2015 at Ajebambo camp via Oniparaga, Araromi Obu in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state, killed one Mrs Janet Oyeniyi with machete. The police also told the court that Adegbehingbe murdered the 86-year-old woman with machete until she gave up the ghost. The offence, the prosecution counsel said, was contrary to and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Vol. 1, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria. Adegbehingbe said he personally killed the woman because he saw the deceased in his dream trying to kill him. He said: “The woman happened to be my neighbour. I killed her because I saw her in my dream trying to kill me. So immediately I woke up the following morning, I went straight to her house to kill her because I thought that was the best thing to do before she would kill me.” [NAN] Naija wonder…. this is not funny.

Police Arrest Fake Nurse In Ondo As Pregnant Woman Dies After Giving Birth To Twins

Ondo State Police Command
has arrested a nurse suspected
to be quack over complicity in
the death of a woman in labour
at Bamikemo village in Ile-Oluji/
Okeigbo Local Government
Area of Ondo State. The
woman, identified simply as
Ayo, died shortly after she was
delivered of a set of twins.
A source said the deceased
approached the suspect when
she was about to be delivered
because she worked as a nurse
at the hospital but allegedly
without any professional
qualification.
It was gathered that the
deceased delivered the babies
successfully but after a while
she became unconscious and
the suspect could not
resuscitate her.
The woman gave up the ghost
shortly after. Not satisfied with
the development, the family of
the deceased reported the case
at the police station in the area.
The body of the deceased has
been deposited at the State
General Hospital, Ile-Oluji. The
state Public Relations Officer
(PPRO), Mr Femi Joseph,
confirmed the incident.
According to him, the woman
died as a result of
complications that arose after
she had been delivered of the
babies.
He said:
“When the woman was about
putting to bed, the nurse
offered to take the delivery,
knowing fully well that she does
not have the professional
qualification to do that. In the
process of doing that
complications arose, which led
to the death of that woman.That
is why we arrested the nurse.”
[Reported By Daily Post]

Ayo Mogaji Opens Beer Parlour In Ibadan,Says Nollywood Actresses Sleep Around For Endorsement Deals

See excerpts of veteran
Nollywood actress Ayo Mogaji’s
recent interview with Daily
Telegraph
Younger actors seem to be
enjoying brand
endorsements from blue
chip companies when just a
fraction of the older ones
benefit from the industry
they toiled to grow. Does
this bother you at all?
It’s journalists like you that will
help us to ask them what
disqualifies us from such
lifechanging opportunities.
Maybe we don’t work hard
enough, maybe we cannot
sleep around and maybe we
cannot quite do what the
younger ones are doing or they
cannot get what they’re getting
from the younger ones from us.
At the location where I am now,
my director and I were
discussing this same matter
yesterday. What their criteria
are I don’t know, but I know if
you google my name, you
would see what I’ve done and
the rest.
It’s quite shocking that some
people still think you’ve not
done enough and that it’s only
the new faces that can sell
products and services. All well
and good, if anybody needs my
service, they will call me when
the time comes.
Some of the older artistes
we’ve interviewed lately
claim producers are
frustrating them. Does this
claim hold waters?
Well, I glorify God’s name that
I’m not from that school of
thought. I’m working, I have a
lot of projects I’m involved in,
though it’s not my doing; it’s
God’s. It’s true that the jobs are
not coming as they should be,
but I must thank God that I’m a
busy artiste. As I’m talking to
you now, I’m on a location and
I’ve been here for a month.
Has the job been more
rewarding from what it was
five years back?
Well, what I will tell you is that
in the Yoruba sector of the
industry, which I’m privy to,
rather than it to improve, it’s
deteriorating. People will just
begin to tell you that Idumota
has spoiled market for them
and all sorts of excuses. Those
who used to pay you N150,000
previously want to price you
down to N40,000. It shouldn’t
be like that.
What are the actors doing to
address this issue?
We have been coming together
for as long as I can remember.
I’ve been in this business for 35
years. We’ve come together so
many times, but at the end of
the day, you throw the knife up
and all the times it lands on the
flat side.
I’m just trying to bother about
me and my family, do my
business now and get out
because if you make a resolve
after a meeting, the next thing
you would see is some people
doing what’s different from
what you agreed to do.
There are so many factions.
Until we come together, we
won’t be able to resolve what
will benefit us all. I’m not
talking about AGN, ANTP,
NANTAP and all others. Let
everybody be under the same
umbrella, if we are, that is when
we would have one voice
because that is when we can
collectively attack whatever we
want to attack.
Forget the difference in our
dialects; we have a common
language in English. We can
form a forum and with English
language, there’s nothing I tell
Nuhu Ali now that he wouldn’t
understand. There’s nothing I
will tell Amechi Nmagu that he
wouldn’t understand. Let us all
return under the umbrella of the
National Association of Nigerian
Theatre Arts Practitioners
(NANTAP).
If we can do that, then we
would be better for it. NANTAP
was the first registered
professional body for artistes in
this country. And people are
undermining NANTAP; it was
under it that AGN broke out.
The Actors’ Guild, Directors’
Guild and Producers’ Guild are
all supposed to operate under
the NANTAP. People are so
selfish, otherwise why would
Emeka Ike think that Ibinabo,
who had assisted the guild in
recent times, deserve to be
taken to court? Nobody will be
able to do anything if we fail to
go back under one umbrella.
What have we been able to do
about piracy? Nothing!
Do you do anything aside
acting?
All I do for a living is acting. It
was just recently that I opened
a pub (what the Yoruba will call
beer parlour). I have it in
Ibadan. I just felt the area I
situated the business was
lacking entertainment, I got a
chance and I put it there. I’m
seldom there anyway.
Are you based in Ibadan at
the moment?
I’ve always been based in
Ibadan. I come to Lagos often to
work.
When setting out early in life,
was acting your first career
choice?
Nothing ever even occurred to
me, it was God who just chose
for me what to do. My mother
wanted me to be a lawyer. At a
point in time, they got me a job
in a bank, but if I had to make
my own choice, I would have
loved to work in international
relations outfit. I would love to
work somewhere I can meet
and interface between people.
Are you giving marriage
another shot?
I’m only married once and I’m
still in my marriage. My
marriage will be nine years on
December 23 and that is the
only marriage I’ve had in my
life. I’m married to Dr. Ayodele
Oduleye.
But there were reports of
broken marriage involving
you and Jibola Dabo…
Jibola was my boyfriend. We
had a baby together before I
got married. We never got
married to each other. I’m
married to a British
Psychotherapist named Dr.
Victor Ayodele Oduleye.

Funny But Sad! Drama As Soldiers Shoot Policemen Chasing Yahoo Yahoo Boy In Festac Lagos

Vigilant soldiers who had been
stationed at 7th Avenue Festac,
Lagos State, fighting pipeline
vandals since Monday,
yesterday, shot dead two
civilians and injured two
policemen. One of the soldiers
was also injured in the
shooting.
The shooting spree happened
moment after the soldiers
received message to be at alert
that robbers had attempted to
rob Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB),
on 23th Avenue and that
another set had attacked banks
at Agbara, Ogun State.
Following the clash with vandals
on Monday, the soldiers had
placed a barrier on the road;
the barrier was to show that the
area was a high security risk
area and drivers were expected
to slow down. The victims of
yesterday shooting, however,
refused to slow down at the
barrier even after the soldiers
repeatedly ordered them to
stop.
Thinking they were criminals,
the soldiers started shooting at
them. When the smoke from the
guns cleared, two civilians had
been killed, two policemen and
a soldier wounded. The incident
occurred around 10:30pm. The
civilian driver died instantly and
a stray bullet killed another
civilian who was eating noodles
not far from the scene.
Two policemen were seriously
injured. One was shot in the
buttock and another on the
knee. The soldiers so sprayed
bullets that expended hundreds
of ammunition littered the
ground. Two police vehicles
were shattered and perforated
with bullets. One of the bullets
bounced off a police van and hit
one of the soldiers on the chest.
The wounded were rushed to a
nearby hospital, but rejected.
They were referred to Lagos
University Teaching Hospital
(LUTH), Idi-Araba. A police
source said: “Surveillance men
were on patrol. They sighted a
Honda car. They thought the
driver was a ‘yahooyahoo’ guy.
The policemen were in a
commercial bus as against the
instruction of the Inspector
General of Police (IG).
“The policemen flagged the
Honda driver down, but he
refused to heed. The policemen
started chasing him, up to 7th
Avenue where the joint team of
soldiers and policemen were
stationed.
There was a barrier on the road
to slow down vehicles. The
Honda driver and the policemen
in commercial bus refused to
stop.”
It was further gathered that the
Honda driver apparently drove
towards the soldiers, thinking
they would protect him from
people in the commercial bus
that were chasing him. When
the Honda driver and
commercial bus refused to stop,
the soldiers opened fire.
The state Police Public
Relations Officer (PPRO), Joe
Offor, confirmed the incident,
which he described as an act of
omission rather than
commission.
[Reported By The Nation
Online]

Davido’s Father Deji Adeleke Divorces Wife, Teju, Journalists Chased Out Of Courtroom

Davido’s Billionaire father, Dr
Deji Adeleke was present at the
Osun State High Court in Ede
yesterday for a divorce
case initiated by his wife,
Tejumade.
The is the second time the
Billonaire will come to court this
week but his estranged wife
refused to show up.
On entering the court, Chief
Justice Oguntade ordered all
journalists present in court to
go out at the request of Dr Deji
Adeleke.
The case was adjourned as the
judge requests for the presence
of Dr Adeleke’s estranged, Teju.

Photo: 11 Buccaneers Cultists Arrested In Ajah Lagos During Initiation, Policemen’ Sons Among Suspects

11 young boys were arrested on
Wednesday at a beach in Ajah
area of Lagos during the
initiation ceremony of new
members into the Buccaneers
cult group.
One of the suspects, 25-year-
old Emmanuel Christoper said
his father is a police inspector
in Lagos while another suspect
20-year-old Ali Ikhide said his
dad is a police sergeant
currently serving in Cross River
State.
Apart from the two, the other
suspects are Jacob Obi, Sanusi
Jide, Abiola Opeyemi, Innocent
Okugbe, Baruwa Muyiwa, Imole
Afolabi, Yusuf Akinsoya, and
Aibor Idris.
According to the police, items
recovered from the gang were:
yellow cult caps, a banner
showing the oath of allegiance
to the Buccaneers cult group,
charms, knives and machetes.
The cultists were apprehended
around 3pm on Wednesday
have been taken to the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad in Ikeja
Lagos.

Toyin Aimakhu Attacked By Lover Seun Egbegbe For Denying They’re Dating, Actress Flees To Ibadan

These are not the best of times for popular Nollywood actress Toyin Aimakhu who recently packed out of her matrimonial home over allegation of infidelity on the part of her husband, Adeniyi Johnson. Few weeks after she left her husband’s house, the actress was said to have moved on with Ebony Film Boss and ex-lover Seun Egbegbe but the actress denied the romance. In a recent interview, Toyin Aimakhu said she’s not dating Mr Egbegbe while the Ebony Film CEO confirmed their romance to another media outlet. In the wake of the conflicting interviews, Seun Egbegbe who is reportedly funding Toyin Aimakhu’s lavish lifestyle and her movies was said to have challenged her on why she’s denying their romance openly, this soon generated a hot argument. At a point, Toyin raised her voice on him, telling him that she couldn’t grant his request because she just quit her marriage and that people might not see their romance in a good light if they sensed she has quickly rushed into another relationship. This was said to have infuriated Seun who allegedly hit her and beat her to a pulp. Few hours after they both left the ‘boxing ring’, Toyin packed a few of her belongings and hit Ibadan where her family resides to console herself of the attack and of course from those prying her. As it stands, her Instagram followers are clueless on her condition. She didn’t come to her IG page for 3 days until few hours ago when she shared a old photo of herself to put to rest the attack story. Meanwhile, close friends who broke this news to us swore that the actress is not in her right frame of mind now. She has suddenly stopped picking her calls. One of our sources who is close to Seun Egbegbe’s house in Ikeja Lagos confirmed the report from neighbours who reportedly intervened at the height of the attack. No’ lele’ if she denies it, this is the truth of the story sha