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The following questions have been submitted by Yvonne Russell of Grow Your Writing Business for the AskCarl feature
Assuming that you’ve checked that trackbacks appearing in your comments aren’t spam, is there any SEO or link advantage to leaving them or deleting them?
Trackbacks for me is just a way of thanking bloggers who have linked to your blog, and help your readers find more stories talking about the topic of a specific blog post.
Although trackbacks are being badly abused these days, they still have some SEO benefit. Because take note, they still count as a link. The “nofollow” attribute is just used to stop PR bleeding and not to stop search engines from crawling the link.
So, I guess there’s no change in your search engine ranking if and only if you use the nofollow attribute in the trackbacks.
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How Do I Get .edu and .gov Backlinks Easily?
This post is for the AskCarl feature. Question submitted by Mark. If you want to submit a question, Just drop me a mail and I’ll try my best to answer it!
Most search engines value .gov and .edu backlinks. These links are so called “authority links” to search engines. That’s the reason why most SEO’s hunt for these kind of backlinks.
Even thought it’s quite hard to get these backlinks. Here are some tips for you to start with:
First, go to Google and try to do the following search:
For .edu domains
“Your desired keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.edu
This search will help you find blogs that uses WordPress with a .edu domain.
“Your desired keyword “ “powered by vBulletin” site:.edu
This search will help you find forums that use vBulletin. Alternatively, you can replace the word “vBulletin” with your desired forum management program (Like Xoops, Phpbb, etc.)
For .gov domains
“Your desired keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.gov
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AskCarl: How to Add AdSense to a WordPress blog? In Various Situations
John e-mailed me a while ago asking me on how did I place AdSense to my WordPress blog. Too bad John didn’t have a site to show me. Anyway I’ll post here my tutorial on how to add Adsense into a WP blog.
Adding AdSense After Post Titles
Let’s go on the basics first. For example: You want to add a 336 x 280 AdSense block below you post title. Open your index.php then look for the part that looks like this:
And if you want to wrap that block, like most blogs do. Add a div into the Adsense code that may look like the one below:
Just adjust the margin that suits your blog design best and of course you could also change the float to “left” or “right”.
Some have situations adding an AdSense unit on their first post but not on the second (I used to do this before ) to…
Click here to continue →Ask Carl: How to Make 3d Crystal Buttons - Photoshop Tutorial
Last week I launched the AskCarl feature thinking that it would be a great success. But I was surprised seeing nothing but dirt on my mail box this past week that wants to ask a question and participate to this new feature. Special thanks to Techzillo who dropped me a comment asking how did I make those 3d crystal buttons.
I didn’t waste any time and made a tutorial (To keep the new feature alive! ). So, here it is, enjoy!
How to Make 3d Crystal Buttons - Photoshop Tutorial
1. Start, by creating a 125 x 125 image (Like the C Image right) and put it in an empty 142 x 142 square.
2. Then add drop shadow (Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow) to your 125 x 125 square image (NOTE: The 125 x 125 must have a transparent background for the drop shadow to take effect). You can copy what I did below (Click to enlarge)
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