NoFollow No More

UPDATE: Since Google does not allow author link in Blogger comments anymore, HashOut does not support nofollow free author links anymore.

I felt that the people commenting on this blog were not really getting their due. The NoFollow attribute which comes by default with the Blogger templates just stifles the incentive to comment. I've thus decided to remove NoFollow from the comments section. And since my comments are moderated, I have no worries about spam as I can decide what goes live.

Hope that will entice you to comment more and actively participate in the discussions.

For those of you who are interested in removing the NoFollow attribute from the anchor tags in the comments section of your blog but do not know how, here is a simple guide to remove NoFollow from Blogger layouts (only for the new Blogger Layout templates). » Continue reading

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Time for some link love - review or comment about Hashout on your blog or website and get the honour returned

As part of my link building strategy, I am hereby kicking off the review this blog campaign. You can not only review HashOut but also you can write or comment about any of the posts on HashOut on your blog or website and link back to it using appropriate link phrase, to get a mention of your blog or website and a link back to your post from Hashout, at the end of the campaign. Not just that! The first 10 reviewers / commentators will get a full fledged review of their blog or website on HashOut!

Here are some basic rules:

1. You must some where in the post, link back to this post and
   
2. Link back to the homepage (http://hashout.blogspot.com/) or a post on hashout which you are writing about, using Anchor text only. Do not link back using "Hashout" or "http://hashout.blogspot.com/" as the anchor text. Either use the title of the hashout post, you are writing / commenting about, as your anchor text or be creative and use keywords relevant to the hashout post as your anchor text.
   
3. In order to avail the first 10 reviews offer, your blog needs to be atleast a month old or have a minimum of 30 posts. Sorry, you just can't expect a review of an empty blog or website.
   
4. Submit your entries along with your name, a link to your post and any other information that you may want included in the link to your blog by April 30, 2007 to
   

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Write a guest post for HashOut!

I'll be off for a fortnight for a holiday this Saturday and may not be able to post regularly. So here is a chance for you to write guest posts for HashOut and get a link back to your blog/website. Everyones invited!

You can write on anything from Technology, Gadgets, Automobiles, Sports, Entertainment, Travel & Holiday, Photography, Lifestyle, Politics, Business, Blogging, Making money online, social bookmarking, social networking, Web 2.0, or for that matter anything that would fit into any of the categories there on the sidebar. For example you can write on the ongoing Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean, the upcoming US Presidential elections or how you reached there in the top 1000 blogs on Technorati or Alexa. Make sure your content is original and that it adds value to the readers.

Submit your posts along with a suitable title, your name and blog/website address to . Offer valid till April 10th, 2007. All submissions will be subject to approval/editing before they go live. » Continue reading

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Hello & Welcome to HashOut!

After weeks of sleepless nights, stressing my brains and butts in conceptualizing and designing this blog, I have been able to put together this dirty little thing you see. It is all about hashing out (definition) opinions, views, reviews, rants, expert advice and general discussions on various subjects. I also invite bright minded people with a fire inside to co-author this blog and initiate topics.

Since I am expecting to have a wide variety of topics here on this blog, I will maintain a page with links to the feeds for each category so that you can subscribe to the category of your interest.

So hope to see you around here often, hashing out your mind!

Special thanks to Darren Rowse for valuable tips on his blog Problogger.net » Continue reading

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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs your use of HashOut. By using HashOut, you consent to the collection, storage and use of certain personal information by HashOut. Such personal information includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, gender, blood group, marital status, number of kids and other information furnished by you to HashOut.

...Let's cut the crap and come to the point. We will never ever disclose any of your personal information or contact details to third parties, whatever be the case.

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Subscribe to Feeds

HashOut offers a main XML feed (RSS/Atom) for all posts on HashOut.

• All of HashOut
  Get it in...
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  Google Reader
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  other readers
  
  http://feeds.feedburner.com/HashOut

You can also listen to all posts on HashOut using the following podcast.

• Podcast (RSS feed)
  http://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=27570

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What is RSS / Atom?

RSS, short for "really simple syndication," and Atom are a family of web feed formats used to keep tabs on what your favorite Web sites or blogs are publishing.

Users of digital content 'subscribe' to a feed by supplying a link to the (RSS / Atom) feed to programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators'; the program then checks the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user. The advantage? Instead of wasting time refreshing your countless bookmarked Web sites and blogs, new content on those sites comes directly to you.

The initials "RSS" are variously used to refer to the following standards:

• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
  
• Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
  
• RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)

The development of Atom was motivated by the existence of many incompatible versions of the RSS syndication format, all of which had shortcomings.

For more information on RSS, visit WhatisRSS.com » Continue reading

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