DISQUS

Glad to hear you're feeling better Shawn. The thing that helped me more than anything and continues to help are my hand stretches. Now I'm always stretching throughout the day and it feels great.

I do like the new feature, but I would love to see a feed of new group posts. I rarely click all my groups to keep up on the new posts.

Congrats to all the finalists!! Got a good group there. So when do we get to vote on the winners?

Maybe to compare to the paid links. If a non-paid link is getting a lot of clicks maybe it can be brought to the administrator's attention and converted to a paid link.

But without any redirect there is no way to track how many clicks the link got. From a statistical standpoint this solution isn't very ideal.

So maybe the ideal solution is to use a 302 and a nofollow on a paid link and a 301 on a non-paid link?

There is nothing wrong with a 302 redirect if used properly. If it's an affiliate link then it's very necessary for tracking of sid's and clicks. A way to avoid any confusion is to block search engine spiders from the redirect script. You can put it in your robots.txt, .htaccess, nofollow and in your redirect code itself. There are several ways to prevent spiders from following the link. Using a 302 in this case is necessary because a 301 would transfer PageRank and Google doesn't allow PR transfers on paid links.

I found this site searching Google news for "social shopping" and was very unimpressed. Not only is the usage very unclear, but there is no way to shop. I checked a couple product pages and there were no merchant links, only AdSense. I agree the AdSense is overdone and that's just going to hurt them. I doubt this will ever get off the ground.

I'm not so sure about ISP's bundling services. When I signed up to Yahoo DSL they included this whole software package that I simply ignored. I didn't even install it. I just want the internet access. They use it as a selling point, yes, but most customers aren't buying access for these selling points. I'm not sure how well Earthlink did with their free popup blocker software, but I haven't heard about it lately. Did that do well for them? Not sure.. Personally, I wouldn't choose one ISP over another because of a bundled application. I'm just looking for the fastest service at the lowest price.