Many concerned bloggers have learned the following:

1. Pagerank matters especially if you are monetizing from your blog since most monetizing opportunities look for pagerank to determine how much you can be paid.

2. Using or not using ‘nofollow’ affects the pagerank.

3. If you don’t use ‘nofollow’ then you attract more spammers.

4. It will also discourage commenters.

5. But if you have a post that is worth commenting on, your readers will not care that much. He or she will comment anyway.

Leaving a worthy comment will at least give your link an opportunity to be clicked by interested visitors, which will add traffic to your site. If your blog is good enough for them to link to, then that is their prerogative and your gain, regardless if the link given to you is a nofollow link or not.

Count your blessings, anyway.

So how do you find out if a blog or link in a specific page is nofollow?

Ok, to give the purpose of this post…first you have to view the source code of the page where links to other blogs or comments are. There could be different ways to view the source code by different browsers. I’m using Firefox 3 and I only have to click Ctrl-U to view the source code. For Google Chrome, which I just installed, I’m still looking for that feature and everything else I’m used to doing with FF3 but that’s another story.

When the source code appears in another window, do a Ctrl-F to find a specific string. Try ‘nofollow’ since that is what we are trying to look for. If you found one, it doesn’t mean that every link has nofollow. Some blogs are selective so it is possible that certain links are nofollow-less. If there is none at all, then that blog gives away blog juice, knowingly or unknowingly.

I received an IM with a message asking for help on how to make images clickable. If I’m not mistaken, it was sent to many, but I’m not sure.

Anyway, I never thought he didn’t know at all since I perceived him to have something to do with web development so HTML would be simple…I assumed.

This mini-tutorial assumes you know basic HTML. You can also make use of it in blogs when you edit using HTML (WordPress) or CODE (for others).

There are basically 2 parts to make this work: your image URL AND your destination URL. Believe me, you don’t need to enroll with the online universities just to be able to accomplish this task.

To make a simple explanation…

If your destination URL is http://myblog.com/destination.html

and your image URL is http://myblog.com/image.jpg

your basic code goes like this:

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red = part of syntax

As I said, this is basic…barebones….There are other tags that can make it more complicated but as far as making an image clickable, this is it.

Another tip. If you have a thumbnail and you want the bigger picture your destination, just specify your destination URL appropriately…just like what I did to my thumbnail picture in this post above.