If someone asked me to recommend them the best blog reviewing marketplace, without a doubt, I’d point them to ReviewMe. Why? Simply because, it has a good number of offers available for taking, only quality advertisers are featured and from what I’ve seen, it’s the best paying reviewing marketplace out there.

I’ve tried out many reviewing marketplaces like Smorty and BuyBlogreviews., but I guess they do not even come close to the standards of ReviewMe in quality - and it’s also, the marketplace which I’ve earned the most from, up to date.

It’s no secret that ROCKFUSE is a dofollow blog. Thought I don’t use the traditional dofollow badges used by all the other blogs that have taken the time to remove the ‘nofollow’ tag, I’ve created my own and I think it’s pretty visible in the sidebar.

Now, why did I exactly made this blog dofollow? Or in that case, why does any blogger make his/her blog dofollow? The obvious reason to do this is to influence comments. If you are in need of developing backlinks to your blog, you’d find that blog commenting is one of the easiest methods to do this - and dofollow blogs stand a higher chance of getting quality comments because of this.

But, there’s a claim that when you remove the nofollow tags, it will lure a lot of spam comments.

In the earlier post, we discussed how we can find the troublesome areas by using Firebug and YSlow. So, when are we actually going to do anything about it? Here’s the scoop on certain methods that can really give you a real performance boost.

Before going any further, I must state that it is extremely necessary you back your files up in case something goes wrong.

Compressing JavaScript

If you’re loading JavaScript file in your plugins - or maybe whole libraries, it would take your blog an awful lot of time to load everything.

Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot from my readers that the blog loaded slowly. Personally, I blamed it on me having to make every design look like the work of Picasso - but as I dug deeper, I found many more things that I could have simply changed/removed to make it load faster.

So, this series is made up of my own experiences in doing what I can to have a faster loading blog. Since there’s a lot to tell and explain, I’d break this topic down to parts.

Hunting down the problematic areas with Firebug and YSlow

There’s no point in hitting the nail where it has not need of it right?

Well, in the beginning there was darkness, then came Twitter. It was the next big thing that everyone was talking about and was quite an addiction to the scores of people who were not eating, breathing, sleeping and even dreaming without posting on Twitter. And then, things started to get a bit ugly as the outages on Twitter, kept the whole Twitter community in dark for too long. That was till there was a new bird on the block - Plurk!

Plurk came at the right time with the right formula.