It has been a while since I have written anything for my blog. No real excuse just being lazy I suppose.

Anyway if you have visited my personal website before you will notice that it has recently been updated with a new design.  I have also combined it with an old website I had left languishing unloved in cyberspace.

So if you have arrived at this site from www.cliveosbornerapley.com then welcome.  That site was hosted on my mobile me account but as Apple will be closing the mobile me service next year in favour of iCloud I thought it an ideal time to combine the two sites.

You will also notice many more comments on my blog postings. Most as you can see are not very relevant to the post content for which I apologise. There is however a reason for my madness.

There were always many comments getting through my comment spam filter and ending up in my inbox for review. I would normally let them build up over a week or so then log on to my account and delete them all.

The majority were posted by automatic link building software or in some instances by real people just trying to link back to their websites to improve their Google ranking.

They were nothing but a nuisance and just caused me work getting rid of them.

Several weeks ago I stumbled across a special WordPress plug in that automatically took these spam postings and removed the back links the posters were trying to add to my website. This cancelled the back link power of the comments but it gave my blog postings comment activity in Google’s eyes, which helps in the page ranking.

An added function of this neat plug in is to randomly replace the spammer’s links with my own links that feed back to my other websites. This hits them with a double whammy their links replaced by my own, it is very satisfying that their spam posts are not doing anything for them but helping me two fold!

So at a stroke this new plug in beats the spammers at their own game. So please ignore the inane comments on some of my posts they are there for a good reason.

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