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I’m Following You



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Wordpress, the blog software I am using, includes a special tag that tells search engines not to follow the links that show up in comments and trackbacks. There’s some complicated reasons why, and some arguments that it doesn’t work anyway

So, I have joined the “do follow” movement. This means that I have added code to my blog that enables links in comments and trackbacks to GET followed by google, yahoo and other search engines. Why? Why not? I am using multiple layers of comment-spam protection anyway, so the comments that make it through are legit… so therefore I all my commenters deserve a little SEO juice.

So, here you go… comment and I will follow you. Cheers.

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4 comments for “I’m Following You”

  1. Yahoo! Rob follows! I’ll comment more :p

    Jason Alba
    CEO - JibberJobber.com

    Posted by Jason Alba | June 11, 2007, 9:07 am
  2. Are you following me, or is it really *stalking*?? :)

    Posted by Kathy Parker | June 15, 2007, 3:12 pm
  3. Good on you Rob! But I’m not posting a link in the comment…

    Posted by Shannon | June 21, 2007, 1:38 pm
  4. [...] a bit - to make it more about you (or the community around my blog). I was inspired originally by this post from Robert Merrill and further by this one with some ideas of how to make my blog more about the community. The first [...]

    Posted by Phil801 - Geek Blog » A Blog-Facelift and trying something new | July 30, 2007, 4:01 am

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