So, there's conjecture that major Search Engines are "fingerprinting" revenue-generating links. Regardless of whether you believe the conspiracy, the theory exists: revenue-generating links could be negated for being ingenuine citations, hence not worthy of passing PR juice. Interesting theory. Following that theory, a bot could probably interpret affiliatename.com/thescript/?myid=12345 as being a ...

After a lengthy struggle with my conscience, I decided to change the permalink pattern here at ianring.com. Instead of the boring querystring method, now you will see the year, month, and post title appearing in the URL. With only a dozen-or-so posts in my blog it's not a blogophere-rocking change; ...

So yes, you can fake the date in WordPress to make it seem like you are writing from the past. The potential is exciting: I could go through old diaries and notebooks and make it seem like I've been blogging since before the www was invented. What is now a ...