A Passion for Running

i’m making a change to help more people find your blog

passion for running category: nothing to do with running on Friday, April 28 2006

I learned something the other day. I learned that my blog wasn’t sending as many visitors to your blog as it could be. Specifically, I learned that my blog had what is called no follow integrated in it’s comments.

Without getting too technical, no follow is a bit of coding created, in part, to deter comment spam. The bad news is that it’s had extremely limited success with that. The badder news is that it prevents search engines (google, yahoo etc) from following the link you leave in my comments, to your blog.

And why is that important? Well, because if you are hoping for new readers, you won’t get them via a search engine that would have found you crawling around in my blog. And, not to brag, but I’ve got search engines crawling around here constantly so you’ve been missing out.

I’d like to change that so I’ve installed a plugin that gets rid of the no follow thing.

My hope is that you will get more visitors because of this change.

Does all this make sense? Please leave me a comment if it doesn’t and I’ll do my best to explain.

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6 Comments

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Comment by jkrunning

Friday April 28, 2006 @

Hey sounds good to me. I don’t understand that technical mumbo jumbo. (I can’t even put hyperlinks in my text) but if it peaks interest, I’m all for it.

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Comment by Island Girl RUNS

Friday April 28, 2006 @

Looked at your blog and liked it. I too run through the beautiful Edmonton River Valley 4 to 5 times per week at lunch time. Also love running up around the University and on the trails in Hawrelak Park. Check out my blog at Island Girl RUNS.

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Comment by jeanne