All links in my email subscriptions always contain nofollow, but they appear correctly on the blog, which is what counts.

It is just the way DoFollow works

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Happy to help.

Peter,

Thanks for the SOAPing. I briefly read your comments this morning and will do more in depth later this afternoon.

Karin H.,

Interesting…I removed nofollow from the source code of WP. What I didn’t catch was the plugin that I’ve used for “Quote Me.” It contains a nofollow also. I wouldn’t have caught that if you hadn’t brought it to my attention. Gone now. Thank you.

Congrats! 750 comments, boy that’s great!

But on no-follow, don’t want to be a party pooper, but this is what I still see in emails follow-ups and on the page-source:
xhref=http://andybeard.eu/2007/02/ultimate-list-of-dofollow-
plugins-banish-nofollow-from-comments-and-trackbacks.html
rel=nofollow

(removed the “’s and >’s to make sure it doesn’t converse back into a link

Hello David,

I am hereby soaping your blog.

First Impression
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Oh wow! A very nice site with great layout! I really like the fact that you have the introduction on top of the posts. This makes it easy to figure out what the blog is about.

I also like your language and writing style.

After scanning a couple of posts you have converted me to a returning reader. Very interesting subjects (I am definitely your target audience).

A couple of things I miss when scanning the first page are testimonials of your services – what does your design clients thing of your services and references to clients you have worked with.

About Driving Traffic
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Your Alexa score is about 1M which I find strange with so many responses to your posts.

I am sure you have a pretty good feel for traffic driving tactics, but if you are not working with the following I would suggest you add it:
1) Press releases
2) Work on getting back links to get your PR up to 4.
3) Pings, although I am assuming you have already done this.
4) Long tail keywords, for example in your categories. Getting high ranking for “email marketing” is a pretty difficult task
5) I would add an image of the special report to increase downloads of the “keyword myth”. I also assume you are sending updates to the downloaders of that report.

Copywriting/Headline tips
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Not being a copywriter myself I don’t have much suggestions.

I do find your post titles a little bit “wordy” sometimes. For example:

“Maybe the best google video ever?”, why not: “The best google video ever?”

“Hey Google, Follow Me: Giving More Link Love” –> “Time For Link Love” or something.

Converting readers to clients
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- Offer testimonials
- Offer client list
- How has the 25 minutes consultation worked? If it isn’t getting you any calls I would remove it, if you have 25 minutes over it tells me you aren’t very busy = not in high demand
- Are you sending regurly to your list? Otherwise do.

I think that was it. Consider yourself soaped

Peter Gillberg
http://www.SoftwareCasa.com
http://www.SoftwareMarketingSecrets.com

Plug in installed, we should be following now. All we need is for the movement to spread and we can get back to where the idea of blogging originated … sharing.

Really, the thanks is due to you because it’s your and others comments that have made my blog successful. So thank you.

I’m enjoying blogging very much – more than doing my work. More is to come, so stay tuned.

Dave,

I agree. Andy Beard has been running a campaign to encourage bloggers to drop the no-follow.

You’re using WordPress, right? I suggest using Dofollow works great. Upload the plugin, activate it and you’re set.

It’s great to see a lot of smart bloggers taking this step and removing the foolish “No Follow” links. It seems to me that back in the early days setting “no follow” developed as a practice to try to avoid spammy comments … but goodness knows it didn’t work at that chore.

Is there an easy way for the average “non-pro” to control these setting or even tell is s/he has them set on their blog?