Blog stuff
A bit of a pointless post really (yes, alright, don’t say it – I know most of them are!). I’ve just installed yet another plugin to help reduce spam comments. Again, I don’t really understand it – it’s based on the ‘rel=”nofollow”‘ tag, and it adds this tag to any links posted in comments. I think this means that although you’ll still be able to click on the link as normal, the search engine bots will ignore it. This somehow affects page ranks – but whether it’s ranks for my blog, or ranks for the links posted in comments or both – I’m not sure. I don’t know how this will reduce spam, but there you go. Some people are unhappy about this because they feel that it’s overkill, and that it will damage reputable people’s page ranks as well as the spammers. As I’m really not bothered about page ranking, I thought I’d install it anyway, and see what happens. But there were no installation instructions (apparently it’s too simple to need them), so I just shoved everything into my plugins directory and hoped for the best.
There’s also been various conversations on BBs and blogs about pinging and updates (or rather the lack of it). I’ve just realised that although I do ping various blog sites when I update – Blogrolling isn’t one of them. As loads of people whose blogs I read (and myself) use Blogrolling, I thought this was rather remiss of me – so I’ve added Bloggrolling to my ping list. Hopefully it will work, because at the moment, it’s saying my blog hasn’t been updated since June.
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Yes, it worked
Since I’ve been using Blogrolling, my blog has shown as being updated every single time. Well worth the couple of minutes extra to manually ping, IMO!
Yes, it worked
Since I’ve been using Blogrolling, my blog has shown as being updated every single time. Well worth the couple of minutes extra to manually ping, IMO!