I’ve not been posting much over the last week or so, but it’s not because I’ve been lazy, just a little busy..

One of the things that I’ve been working on is a new free Plugin for you, althogh I won’t claim to have coded it myself, I outsourced the work as usual.

I made a post a couple of weeks ago about dealing with a Google PR0 penalty  to your blog for “allegedly” selling text links, which is something I’ve never done on this site, but Google seem to believe I have, as they’ve recently made PR for this blog a big fat Zero.

I believe the penalty is based on having a long list of “recommended resource” links in my blogroll, none of which include the Rel=”nofollow” tag, as it’s not a default option offered by WordPress, so Pagerank is being passed to those sites listed, which some bright spark at Google has obviously assumed that I’m getting paid for.

The previous post included a video showing how to add a “nofollow” option to blogroll links by editing the wordpress files themselves, but I decided this is probably not something most bloggers will want to do, for fear of breaking something, and for me it’s simply too fiddly and time consuming to want to do on all my blogs, as I’ve got quite a few.

The solution was to get a plugin written that will do the same thing and I’m happy to say it’s finished, it works and it’s a piece of cake to use.

You can download it on the Blogtactics Plugins Page

or to save you the extra click, here’s a direct link to the zip file:
Blogtactics nofollow blogroll links plugin

and just to make it easier, here’s a quick video showing you how to use it once you’ve activated it..

If you’re not sure how to add a new plugin to your blog then watch the previous video tutorial I posted on how to upload and activate a WordPress Plugin

I also did a post a while back with a couple of videos to show how to upload files either using some free ftp software (along with where to get the software) or how to use cPanel File Manager to upload files to your blog:

Uploading files to your webhosting or blog with ftp or cpanel filemanager

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