Well yesterday I did something I promised myself I wouldn’t do. I missed a blog posting. Now this happened for a number of reasons. The first was I did a very silly thing; I removed the partition on my computer on which I had Linux installed. Now this wouldn’t have been so bad had I remembered the boot loader was also on this partition. This meant that on restart I was treated to a lovely black screen and not beautiful windows as I expected. A slight amount of panic then occurred before the calm headed clog took over and a solution was found. The second main reason was my inability to say no to going to the pub, seven hours later and I was in no fit state to make any kind of post.

So today is a new day and although slightly hung-over still I have some interesting statistics from the commenting experiment for you. As you probably know by now my goal was to get into the top commentators spot on several of the larger blogs in the make money online niche and see how much traffic if any I would get. Here are the results.

As you can see shoe money wins hands down with number of visits with a grand total of sixty. I’m also quite impressed that the average time on site was thirty seconds. This means that people are reading at least some of what we have to write. Now as I keep promising I am planning something very interesting in the next few days, a real money making technique. I don’t want and will not have an income report for May with no income in it.

Well yesterday I said I would show any one who was interested how you can make no follow links instantly visible so here it is.

• Quit Firefox and go to the following directory (NB xxx is a random string of eight characters): C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxx.default\chrome In there you will find be an example file called userContent-example.css,.
• Rename this file userContent.css (remove -example)
• Open up your new userContent.css file and add the following line:
  a[rel~="nofollow"] { border: thin dashed firebrick! important; background-color: rgb(255, 200, 200)! important; }
• Save and close the file

It really is as simple as that, yet another reason why I choose Firefox as my default browser. Why is this useful? Well in order to get good rankings from Google you need links. Any site which is setting their links to no follow means these will not count against your site, and therefore not improve your page rank. High page rank is not only a great thing to brag about but also helps increase the quality and value of your blog. All the big guys realize that with a higher page rank you can make larger profits due to the extra perceived value of any potential links from that page. I found this little picture which really sums up the importance of no-follow links, just look how happy Darren Rose at Pro Blogger is.

This is why I have chosen to keep the commenting going on other blogs for as long as I can, to get in the top commentators list and get some of that lovely page rank flowing back to my blog. This week I shall also look into grabbing back links come back tomorrow to see what we have planned.