Article Manual

One way to discourage spam comments on WordPress blogs is to completely remove links in comments.

If you want to remove the “Website” field from your WordPress blog, here is a nice trick.

Go the the wp-includes folder. Locate the “comment-template.php” file.

For older versions, the file may be “comment-functions.php”.

Replace this line:

$return = “<a href=’$url’ rel=’external nofollow’>$author</a>”;

with

$return = $author;

The blog will accept links in the “Website” field,  but the links won’t be published.

Here is a little trick to make your WordPress blogroll link nofollow.

You don’t need any plugin.

Go to Links > Click Edit > Go to Link Relationship.

Now add “nofollow” to “rel:”.

If you are unable to edit the “rel:” option, disable JavaScript for your browser and then refresh the page.

Save the settings and enable JavaScript again.

Does the geographic location of a web server affect the search rankings of sites hosted on the server?

According to Matt Cutts, it does.

Matt Cutts on Server Location – I

Matt Cutts on Server Location – II

From the first video:

So we do absolutely try to return the most relevant results to each user in each country and server location, in terms of IP address, is a factor in that.

From the second video:

So if your web server is based in Germany, we are more likely to think that it is more useful for German users. That’s not the only country we are going to return you for and we also look at the TLDs. So we look at .de ,fr. All those sorts of things. You can also specify in Google’s webmaster console and say “Yes, my site my .com or .net or whatever is about this specific country.”

SEOmoz is one of the most popular SEO resources.

If you haven’t been tracking it, this will help you catch up:

Top SEOmoz Posts of 2010.

Vincenzo Cosenza has used data from Alexa and Google Trends to create a world map of popular social networks.