One of the most important factors in search engine rankings is the amount and authority of inbound links to a site. This phenomena is analogous to a popularity contest. Google assumes that if many people are talking about you, you’ve GOT to be important. Hey- I thought we were out of high school 
In this post, I’ll show you how to use a free Firefox extension called Search Status as an effective backlink checker.
Hey Folks,
Just a quick update…
Google begun updating its pagerank information some time early this week. They are also updating sites backlink information. So, check out your web properties to see if you’ve been given a green bar boost. This is the first PR cycle that www.iterationstation.com has been around for and we debued at a PR 3- not too bad 
. This will be old data, likely from the end of January, so if you’ve done a big SEO campaign over the last month it won’t likely be reflected yet in your bar.
Remember, although pagerank does provide some indication of search engine rankings, it is by no means the definitive factor in serp placement. It is fun to see that green bar on the rise though, and for those who have an inkling of what it is, a high pagerank provides social proof that your site has value.
If you don’t know how to see your pagerank, you can download the Google Toolbar.
This post is about implementing no follow tags on a Wordpress blog.
Without getting too technical, the no follow tag is a way to keep search engine spiders from following a link to a new page. This is important to wordpress bloggers for two reasons, first, the automatic addition of no follow tags on comments somewhat dissuades spammers from using scripts to comment on your site. No follow is automatically implemented for comments so you don’t need to worry about it unless you wish to remove the tag.
Now to the purpose of this post. The other reason people use no follow is to rank highly in the search engines for target keywords. Think about a sites ability to rank(authority) as water in a bucket. Incoming links are like spouts filling the bucket while outbound links are holes draining the precious contents. The nofollow tag plugs the holes in your bucket.
So, where would you want to implement no follow?