In one sentence – Upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4 right now!!

That is unless you want to leave your blog open to being hacked. If you are using an older version of WordPress, your blog has security vulnerabilities. Thankfully, these security loopholes have been fixed in WordPress.

If you don’t think this can happen to you, think again!

One of my websites which is based on a WordPress blog and was running on version 2.0.9 got hacked a while back. I would never have found out if not for Google Webmaster Tools.

So if you have not signed up for that yet, better do so asap as they have some very good tools which will help with optimizing your website/blog.
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I started out with this blog being a do-follow blog because I believe in giving back to those who contribute useful comments. I can live with the fact that they might be adding the comment only for a link back as long as they also add something solid.

However, sadly most of the comments turn up being the ‘Thank you for this post’ type comments, while others don’t even bother with that and just copy an old comment that made it through moderation. Even worse are those that are not even relevant to the post.

No Follow to Do Follow to No Follow

Due to these tactics, a lot of do-follow blogs have decided to go back to being no-follow blogs. Although, this blog is still do-follow, I am seriously considering that option if the quality of comments keeps deteriorating. It can be very time consuming to wade through the spam to get to the real comments and sometimes they get missed out on or get delayed in posting.
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