Comments on: Tuesday’s News on InvestorBlogger: Wordpress 2.5, Social Spark, Hosting and more

By: April Fools: Technorati, Safari, SRG, and Analytics - all borked | InvestorBlogger

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:59:40 +0000

[...] in China, it also cites some discussions that others have had about ‘huis’. And in Tuesday’s News, I speculated about adopting WordPress 2.5 but now I find that I’m using it and loving [...]

By: InvestorBlogger

InvestorBlogger — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:26:23 +0000

Actually, it wasn’t inline advertising, I don’t really use that yet. I had a 250×250 ad that was in the top of the each post. Apparently, the advertiser didn’t like that. Of course, I couldn’t change it just for one post. I had had other posts approved without issue, but I had to accept that it was against their TOS when it was pointed out to me.

I’m new to this nofollow rap, so I guess I’ll be making a lot of mistakes.

kenneth

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:39:37 +0000

I haven’t seen the inside yet

As for monetization, it would probably be fairly easy to get a plugin modified so that your inline text links don’t appear on posts that an advertiser is paying for.
Lucia (of Lucia’s Link Love fame) created a plugin to handle this for Kontera, it is much easier for something PHP based as you can just wrap the wordpress filter in some php logic based upon a category, or maybe custom fields.

p.s. blocking links with robots.txt doesn’t prevent them accumulating Google juice. Blocking links to other blogs with nofollow prevents those links being seen, and could get any pingback or trackback flagged as spam.

By: peter

peter — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:47:17 +0000

it’s nice to know we’re not the only ones feeling dreamhost pains:

http://www.scribemedia.org/2008/03/25/dreamhost-nightmares/