I am not impressed easily by plugins in general, simply because there are just too many of them. But Lucia's NoOldSpamLinks Plugin for WordPress will get my award for Best Plugin of the year when it comes to be. The NoOldSpamLinks Plugin is in its infancy right now and a lot of work needs to be done to it still, but what I have seen so far is all good.
The premise behind NoOldSpamLinks is it will enable you to 'grandfather out' links to a domain that you have already posted about. Add the link to your NoOldSpamLinks list and everywhere that link appears in your posts will auto-magically change to NoFollow. Future enhancements of the plugin will account for any links in your Dofollow comment area as well.
Why would you want this plugin?
Simple. Imagine, if you will, a nice lady's blog GrannyMay. GrannyMay blogs about the retirement years and how to be financially well off when the time comes. She is a very hip senior citizen babe and knows her stuff, you have been blogging about her enthusiastically for years. Plus she has legs up to here, Chuck!
Then one day GrannyMay dies. It is sad and the blogging world mourns the loss. What is even sadder is that XXXpRoN.com just bought her domain for $1251.69 at auction, what a steal! GrannyMay has a PR6 site with hundreds of thousands of backlinks. Now everyone is linked to a hoochy-coochy site catering to Grandma fetishes. We always fantasized about GrannyMay, but this is just plain sick and you spend the rest of the day speaking to Ralph on the white telephone.
That is okay, you have NoOldSpamLinks handy and get rid of your attachment to GrannyMay by Nofollowing the links. At least in the eyes of Google, they will not be considered. It may take Google a little time to come around, but rest easy that it is taken care of --- the drastic change at GrannyMay will spur them to reassess those backlinks.
Keep an eye on the progress of this plugin. Drop by Lucia's blog, install the plugin and give him some feedback.
9 comments:
Hi! Thanks for the post.
The plugin now has an interface and lets people do more. (Some running sponsored ads wanted additional features.)
No Spam Links Plugin.
I'm writing more plugins too. I have loads of ideas of what I want, and for some reason, people don't write them.
Excellent information. I'll pop on over and check it out. Thanks.
i am new to this business of no follow but i think i will try and check it out and maybe later see if i can write plug ins of my own
Wow - I can't believe I've not come across this before, what an awesome idea.
The plugin page still says it't in beta - have you actually tried it yet?
Bill
No. I have not tried it at all. This blog is actually from Blogger, via FTP.
I was just impressed with the idea and wanted to write about it.
Looks like an interesting plugin!
Excellent information. I'll pop on over and check it out. Thanks.
I use WordPress for my blog . Seems like I'll be able to use this easily. Thanks for the info. I'll do some more research. Although I've seen it happen before, I'm not sure how a PR-6 would benefit a new site if the keywords are different...That's probably why I'm not an SEO expert though!
WOW. I have been lokking for a plugin like this for some time. I have tried one or two but none was able to do exactly what I needed. Spamming is becoming an increasing concern for bloggers.Any new tool to combat spam and improve the quality of my blog is always welcome.
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