Do Follow
By Brent Diggs on Oct 14, 2007 in Most Joking Aside
The Ominous Comma is now a do follow blog, which means that your every little comment gets you extra google credit in the webosphere.
So get crackin’ peoples
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I don’t even need the insentive; I love the Googles and ominously comma the blog.
Oooh… google juice!
I always loved the Comma, but it’s a nice little perk. Thanks! :)
Lacking actual usable information, I wanted to provide some service to the blogosphere other than just amusing myself.
And please help me make sure this new plugin is working. If you haven’t received a link in a couple of days, drop me a line.
Can you please explain how this works?
Thanks! :)
Well,(someone correct me if I am wrong) most blog software puts a no-follow attribute on comments from other blogs, so they do not “count” as links in the ranking structure of Google,Technorati and others.
This important because, much like in economics, those who have have an easier time getting more. The more popular your blog is (or appears to be in the case of some less scrupulous people)the easier it is to get more traffic: Search engines rank you higher, more people link to you, which feeds the cycle again.
SEO people talk about a tipping point, where your blog finally achieves enough recognition, or momentum so to speak, that it can sustain itself without the wholesale promotion required to get to that point.
The do-follow plug in I installed gives commenters links back to their blog from mine.
I’m exhausted. Anyone have anything to add.
I think you handled that pretty thoroughly. Welcome to the dofollow/no nofollow club. RL is no nofollow as well.
So, what you’re saying is, is that if I comment here, and put my blog as the link, instead of my actual website, I get extra brownie points? I don’t suppose you’d like to try to explain this whole RSS thingy? Those of us born before a certain date which shall not be mentioned have just been left in the dust by all this rapidly changing technology. It’s a wonder we can even make toast. Or coffee. Remember percolators? I didn’t think so.
Oops…got off track there. Thanks for any help you have…keep up all the good writing!
I remember percolators and also calculators with glowing red led readout.
RSS is a syndication system. The little orange icon up top transforms this page into my own newspaper or radio station.
People (lots and lots of them) can click it and subscribe to this blog. There are a million different feedreaders to chose from (I think Yahoo has one) but once all the clicking is done and the dust clears, my multitude of subscribers (currently 72)get my latest post sent to them as soon as it is finished, just like a newspaper.
That’s basically it, but as usual anyone cna chime in with anything I might have forgotten.
One more thing…Please stop by and visit my blog. I’ve started a “Continue the Story” game and would LOVE for you to participate.
In fact, everyone who reads this, please visit and join in! :)
This is my first time visiting your site and thought I would come by for some humor…got to love getting comments, feel free to return the favor! (still not really sure if this will help, I’m still pretty new to all this)
Great site
happy blogging
Thank you Carrie, you’ve good some good jokes on your blog…and a metric boat-load of kids!
If you ever decide to take over the world, you already have your own army.
Just remember, I’m on your side.
I recently did the same thing to my wondrous journals, dear Brent. Now we can follow each other all across the blogosphere!
Don’t look behind you, sir!
I had wondered what that smell was, Bourbon and liverwurst, clearly a lord.
Well then I shall comment. So here goes:
“Comment”
Was that good?
Well done. Very well done.
This is so unfair! I do not yet have my own blog to gain points with. I fear that you will force me to do something that I am not yet prepared to do……… Damn you Dr. T!
oops sorry for my outburst……. I’ll just go lie down now.
I stumbled over this site so I decided to take a look inside. I read the post and the comments and loved what I read. I especially like the “comment” comment? I look forward to revisiting.
Thank you Paul, come back any time.
Brent,
Thanks for the link love! I’ve read through so posts and like what I’ve seen. I look forward to contributing and learning from you.
If you think thee is anything factual here to learn then you are indeed new here.
But we will quickly educate you.
Thanks for supporting the “do follow” movement!
Greeting, Ominous dude. I’m stopping by merely to check your “dofollow” status, so that I can add it to my list. Thank you for being a dofollow blog.
RT Cunningham
Untwisted Vortex
The pleasure is all mine.
Except for the large portion that is yours.