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I have become somewhat irregular with this blog. I have got busier with my work and it doesn’t help my energy at all. Writing a good post after a long day and again in front of internet is not an easy task, at least not for a lazy guy like me

But I have planned to write on this topic for some days now. And yes, Yahoo does support nofollow attribute much like Google. If you add a nofollow tag in a link, Yahoo crawler will index it. But the link will not be considered for ranking of the  target page. Here is what they have said officially on their help page:

The Yahoo! Slurp web crawler obeys the rel=”nofollow” attribute for links. Web publishers and blog owners can apply a rel=”nofollow” attribute to any hyperlink on their page to indicate that the link may not be an approved or trusted link.

Note: Yahoo! Slurp may use a “nofollow” link for discovering content, but the link will not be considered an “approved” link for consideration when ranking the target page.

If you would like to read the whole article, click here. So if you have been using nofollow attribute for Google search, you have been automatically taking care of Yahoo too

Each time you edit your blog post Wordpress sends a ping to the blog pinging services automatically. So if you edit the post several times after it has been published, Wordpress will send pings same number of times unnecessarily. Blog directories and blog ping services like Ping-o-Matic track those pings & based upon the frequency of those pings they may consider your blog as a potential spam & ban it from their services.

So if you update your blog posts a lot, you better have some extra protection from being marked as a spammer. There are some plugins that can prevent Wordpress autoping. One popular Wordpress plugin is MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. You just have to install it. Then you will get the options to enable and disable pinging. Even you can set the maximum number of pings at a certain time interval like one ping in 15 minutes. And from the log below the page you can find the pings that the plugin has prevented and the pings that went through. A cool plugin altogether. But for activation of this plugin you have to submit your email address and click on the confirmation link in the email. From then on, you will receive newsletters and offers from MaxBlogPress. You can unsubscribe from the mailing list any time.

But what if you get the exact same plugin without having to disclose your email address? CBNet Ping Optimizer is just a perfect alternative to MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. Everything is same. You will get the exact same functionalities and same user interface and you don’t have to register your email address.

So what will you choose

So now you have a few more templates to choose from if you strictly use blog templates from Blogger’s own gallery. But what is more important, all these 15 new Blogger templates are highly customizable giving you more control over the style and look. Each of these templates come with one, two and three column layouts and you will have complete control over the size and arrangement of the columns. Then you can choose any color or make your own custom color to apply it to your new Blogger template. Not only the color, you can also change the whole background with any picture from iStockphoto. There are hundreds of images to choose from. And the best thing is that you do it without affecting your blog live online. Just select the “Template Designer” tab to have a live preview while editing.

Here is a cool and short video from Blogger that will take you through a quick tour.

This new feature is only in Blogger Draft right now. So if you want to try it to your blogspot blog you just have to login there. And why not? It is your chance to make your blogspot blog more beautiful