Better Product Managers, and Product Management

1. BackType Connect I’ve been using the BackType Connect plug-in for the last couple of weeks to aggregate comments about blog entries (including tweets and comments posted on other blogs) and show them here.  I’ve been very happy with the results – showing a comment or two right away has really served to break the ice and get more people talking here.

      I really admire their general model of “don’t try to change the user behavior, work with it.”  I know my readers won’t spend all of their time here when there’s Twitter, Facebook, other blogs, and other sites – but we can all still benefit from pulling those conversations together in one place.

2. Guest Posting I wrote my first guest post last week for SearchEnginePeople, and will definitely do that again.   Writing for a new audience was a nice change, and it forced me to be more clear with my thinking.  Add to that exposure to a brand-new audience and new interesting people to follow on Twitter, and it was a big win.

3. Do Follow On As of today, links in my comments do not have the “nofollow” attribute enabled.   Nofollow means that Google ignores the presence of links on my site if they appear in my blog comments.   Search engines assume that the blog author doesn’t necessarily “endorse” the links placed in the comments, so No follow is the default for comments on WordPress blogs.

     However, the vast majority of my comments come from the Product Management and User Experience communities, from smart people that I do endorse.  So I’ve installed the NoFollow-Free plug-in which means that the readers who comment will be rewarded with some extra SEO love.  My spam filters have done a pretty good job so far, so I’m hopeful that I won’t have to disable this due to comment spam abuse.

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