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I’m so supremely confident that comment spam aint happening here, that I’ve elected to install the Dofollow plugin.

So if you feel like leaving a comment - there’s some free link-lovin to be had!

Ever had comment spam on your blog? Ever had your content stolen? If so - it was more than likely a bot, rather than a person with too much time on their hands.

Black hats of today have more tools in their toolbox than Bob the Builder; those of concern to us are mostly bots and web crawlers. Whilst some are making great progress, it is by definition, impossible to keep every grubby automated spammer out of your website.
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As pointed out by Guy Kawasaki,

“A site’s signup page is the second most important page on a site (the most important is the home page itself) because this is where you’re asking for committment.”

A sign-up page should be suitable as a landing page for AdWords campaigns, mail-out campaigns and potentially any other marketing campaigns.
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According to OpenID.net…

“OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites…”

Earlier in the week I stipluated User Identity and Account Management as requirements for a CRM.
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This week I am writing the review a couple of days early, simply because I’m going to Auckland for the weekend. As such, it’s a bit of a shorter week - but I’ve still accomplished a few things (giving self a pat on the back):

• There is now a draft taxonomy for the geo-sites; am sure it’ll need a couple of reviews - but it’s a good start.
• I’ve started to investigate a CRM solution so that I can be organised from the start with customer contact.
• Have also decided that OpenID is a very good candidate to take care of the User Identity and Account management requirements (or at least most of them), rather than relying on a CRM. It feels like an altogether nicer bite sized chunk, although potentially another moving part.

Stay tuned!