In this hectic world of blogging where all we want is acceptance, we often tend to do things out of the ordinary to gain this feeling of “fitting in” and “success” into our heads.

As redemption for these things we do, it’s time for someone to stand up and make fun of these people. That’s going to be me, and in this post I will point out five funny things that we do as bloggers to give us that professional look.

Some of the things listed below are that which we do subconsciously, and others because we think someone will be impressed.

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As a followup to a past post on Blogussion about the Google Algorithm change, “Jeet” from GetLinksPro has explained the impact of the change in his own words.

I have always advised bloggers to switch to dofollow comments and moderate the comments with a tight fist. This not only rewards the contributors it also brings a lot of traffic from smaller dofollow search engines and links from dofollow lists and directories.

I personally prefer and recommend using the dofollow plugins that can impose a limit of minimum 3-5 comments before a dofollow link is given.

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