Well, frankly, that you should add a link to your website in your profile. Seriously.
I looked at the in-depth visitor data today for this site and found that a lot folks are clicking on your comment profiles, and most of them are getting nothing. SEOmoz's comment system works differently than most blogs, so you actually need to click on the members section when logged in to see and edit your profile. You can add a link to your site, a profile, an avatar and change your password.
Also, we've just updated the recent posts link to be more accurate and useful. If you're a frequent visitor to the blog, that's probably the place to start.
Sorvoja - You can spam my blog anytime you like. We've yet to be spammed (although I'm suspicious of those guys posting in the RedZee search engine thread), so it might be kinda exciting.
BTW - What does the trick do? And how come there's no Norwegian > English babelfish out there.
I'm getting visitors from seomoz each day, I don't comment here a lot, but I do have a profile link and listed at the sem-exam.
Seems like it's getting crowded in here which is great! next time TW, SEW and WMW crash all together won't be a problem. :-)
Ok, if you use the Firefox broser then you can add the following to your user CSS
a[rel~="nofollow"]:after { content: "!"; background-color: white !important; color: red !important; font-weight: bold !important; text-decoration: blink !important; }
And every rel=nofollow link will be marked by a blinking exclamation point.
You will find the user stylesheet at the following path (Windows): C:\Documents and Settings\yourUserName\Programdata\Mozilla\Firefox\ Profiles\someRandomLetters.default\chrome\userContent.css
It is pretty nice not having to check the source code to detect rel=nofollow links.
(You should have something done with the parsing of the data from this comment box, of some resaons I see some extra vertical whitespace.)
Thanks for mentioning this Rand.
I actually forced myself to put a link to my site the first time I set it up, which I'm really glad I did.
Since then, I've noticed a couple of top contributors who've missed the opportunity, or decided not to. I wonder which one it could be.
Particularly since the link from my profile would actually be worth something to the search engines. I believe SEOmoz has a domain ranks of 6 or 7 at the moment.
Thanks Rand.
Jacob Nielsen would hate me, but atleast I don't have a "under construction" image.
I was aware of the rel=nofollow (I am not spamming your blog). I picked up a nice CSS trick from Manos website. It is pretty neat, if he reads this he might translate the article into English.
Nice, Sorvoja - You're the 4th most popular outbound link on SEOmoz today and your website says "coming soon". The irony is beautiful.
Do note that all the links in the comments are "nofollow", but those links in your profiles are 100% genuine link love. Albeit, from a site that can't rank at Google for it's own unique page titles... heh heh.
I will edit my profile and add some content to my website. Looking at the server stats I see a stunning 20 visitors a week from seomoz :-)
Good, I've had my site up in my profile for a while. Will add an avatar soon!
A good way to get people who are involved in search marketing to fill out their profiles, Rand. Tell them that they are missing out on traffic. Nice one.
Added my website now. Often you will see me say something about CSS etc., and since the source code of my website isn't "saying" the same as I do, and the website is in Norwegian I originally left it out on purpose. You know, talk the talk and walk the walk thing.. :)
I wouldnt say i get a great number of visitors from my profile here but probably about 4 a day for every recent post i have done.