Merry Christmas and a restful holiday to all my readers! See you next year – I’m going on a skiing holiday now.

Again I found a funny feature on Prinzzess’ blog: Am I a Wordpress junkie?

How much of a Wordpress Junkie are you?
Cute Wordpress Themes

I participated in Spielkind’s blogger secret Santa and today my present arrived. Super cute Hello Kitty socks (the right size, brilliant!) and yummy christmas chocolate. This present from my secret Santa, Haeschen, is absolutely to my taste.

I hope that my present for you will also arrive soon. I sent it off yesterday and it should come shortly. Hopefully you will like my present as much as I like yours, dear Haeschen!

Jupidoo, Basil! It’s done: I blog since exactly one year. On 11th of December 2006 I wrote my first post: “Grummel… Sch*** Hacker…“. Admittedly the post was written on MySpace and then assumed on my Wordpress blog, but who cares. The date is important. ;)

Yeah, now I’m afficially one year old. As blogger, of course, anyway I wouldn’t be able to write this post.

I just deleted my daily spam and surprise, surprise – I got more than 100,000 spam comments.

Akismet has caught 121,901 spam for you since you first installed it.

That’s cool. So cool that I make a baton of it and send it to Uwe, Gabi and Conny. How many spams did your Akismet gorge? And if you don’t have Akismet, I have bad luck.

Now Trigami even took a stand on the pagerank decreases contingent on Trigami posts via email to all members. It seems that Google really interprets the links in Trigami posts as bought links and that these links lead on to penalisation. The blogosphere is already reporting on that busily.

That’s what Trigami says (free translation):

The problem:
Google declared war on bought links which are not marked as machine-readable (e.g. with a “nofollow” attribute) and therefore affect the search results. It may be assumed that links in trigami reviews are classified as paid links by Google. That can implicate that trigami bloggers could be penalised by Google.

Our consequences:
a) Update of our marking:
We put the “nofollow” attribute on all links of our obligatory marking already on 25th October 2007. As these links are necessary and forced by us, we should have used the “nofollow” attribute from the beginning on. This was a mistake, and we now corrected it. We warmly recommend that you update the trigami markings in all of your former recensions, i.e. to put the “nofollow” attribute on all links inside the marking.

b) We recommend the consequent usage of “nofollow”:
We recommend the consequent usage of the “nofollow” attribute on all links in trigami recensions. Explanation: With this trigami explicitly stands aloof from unmarked paid links and is therewith 100% Google-guidelines-compliant. According to the Google guidelines, penalisations are impossible when the “nofollow” attribute is used consequently.

What do we recommend to bloggers who got a PageRank zero?
In these cases we recommend you to put the “nofollow” attribute on all links in trigami posts and to request reconsideration of your website. According to Google this should solve the problem 100%. You can put in the request here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reinclusion?hl=de

And as examples for bloggers who already achieved success with the nofollow method they name my blog und Connys blog. As I said it before, we caused a wave

As already noticed by SuMu and Drasco, by Pagerank is back since lately. PR 4, as always, as if it never had changed.

I can only expect what is the reason. You may know that I added the nofollow attribute to all links in Trigami posts. Then I asked Google to check my blog once more. That was about a week ago. There were a few reports that this procedure brings back your old Paferank – but I don’t know if that was the real reason.

Whatever, never mind – my Pagerank is back.

Addition: Conny also got her PR back!