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Re: I’m following you!

Joede — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:37:32 -0000

How do I set up the "do-follow" in Wordpress? I apologize if someone has already asked and answered but I didn't see it.

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David Coveney — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:57:35 -0000

Hi Stephen,

You're welcome.

Yes your comments are set to follow now. Nice work.

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Stephen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:53:40 -0000

WOW! What a quick and great response! Jim's got the best followers! (can someone confirm that the change I just made is done right and how would I check?)

Thank you David for that link!

Does the same concept apply to backlinks? i.e. should they be follow or nofollow?

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Marketing Specialist - Jim Con — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:48:53 -0000

Thanks for the link David!!

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David Coveney — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:45:44 -0000

Stephen looks like your blog is using Blogger. Your links are currently nofollow.

This tutorial will enable do follow on Blogger Comments:

http://blogvietshow.blogspo...

Hope this helps

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Marketing Specialist - Jim Con — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:41:48 -0000

Stephen,

This blog runs on WordPress and making it do-folllow is very easy. I am not sure if you can convert a 'blogger' blog to do-follow. I seem to recall you cannot, but would be happy to know if any of the readers can confirm otherwise.

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Stephen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:31:20 -0000

I have been looking around on blogger and do not see where I can set links as Do Follow. What am I missing? Am I set up for Do Follow links at my blog, blog.FlowingDesert.com?

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Simple — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:11:22 -0000

Yah it does do Do follow, Thanks jim for being kind to new owners/bloggers who are looking to increase traffic for their site.. U did a gr8 job by doing Do follow.

Regards,
Simple
officeinfotips

Re: I’m following you!

Marketing Specialist - Jim Con — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:50:50 -0000

UPDATE:

Do-Follow links all working again!

"THANK YOU" to David and Andy for bringing it to my attention!

Re: I’m following you!

Marketing Specialist - Jim Con — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:49:10 -0000

Looks like there has been an issue with the Wordpress 2.7 upgrade we just did. I have my blog's 'tech guy' working on it this evening. Hope to get it resolved asap. No-follow links are pointless!

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David Coveney — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:39:12 -0000

That's what I was getting at but obviously got misunderstood :P

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Marketing Specialist - Jim Con — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:37:29 -0000

Andy,

I've just checked and you are right - something HAS changed. Getting onto it now.

Thanks for the heads-up!!

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Andy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:15:53 -0000

Funny how every link on this page that I clicked 'inspect element' on has a no-follow attribute....

Has something changed?

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Marketing Specialist - Jim Con — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:16:05 -0000

David,

Comments are do-follow, from the second onward. So, anything you see that's not do-follow is a first comment. Hope that makes sense.

Re: I’m following you!

David Coveney — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:49:32 -0000

Hi Jim,

I installed Greasemonkey the other day. Using it with FireFox and a smart bit of JavaScript I am able to identify a "no-follow" link on any webpage. It shows up with a pink background. Pretty clever I thought. Especially for link building purposes.

The problem arises when I look at all of your blog comments. They all have pink backgrounds. This is saying to me that they are no-follow links. Have you stopped offering do-follow comment links now or have I missed something?

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Stephen — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:57:33 -0000

Jim, what a great site you've got here. Just looking around and have found several articles that will help me.

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Web Media — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:16:58 -0000

Jim, you sure got yourself a gold blog for marketing... see ya'll on Twitter!

http://Twitter.com/WebMedia

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tobi — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:27:47 -0000

great info, i am glad i found your site through twitter. awesome place, and love the time you have decided to devote to enlightening us with all the skills you have learnt from your experience in the marketing world.
greatly appreciated.

Re: I’m following you!

Fernando Martins — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:44:49 -0000

Jim, of course your idea has to work - what goes around, comes around! If you do unselfish things like this, the world will smile back to you.

Thank you for the high-value content on this blog and for your ideas AND actions.

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Jessie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:31:01 -0000

Jim,

Thanks for the add on Twitter (which ultimately led me here). Still trying to wrap my head around the social media as marketing tool concept, and I've already learned so much from just two of your posts! I'll definitely stay tuned, and give you lots of mentions on our newly established blog. Thanks again!

Re: I’m following you!

Jerry Roberts — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:51:30 -0000

I think the bottom line is your point on content and creating value. If that's the focus, in the long run you can't go wrong.

SEO algorithms will change and link juice will probably change with them. Quality and value never go out of style.

I don't think you have to ignore basic SEO, such as meta tags, keywords, and the simple things that take very little time to do.

I spend a few minutes a day on that stuff, while 98 percent goes to creating content, researching new blogs, reading their posts and leaving comments; and then interacting with friends in social media.

While I can't spend as much time on Twitter as I would like, I'm getting a steady flow of followers. More important, I've already developed some new relationships that look promising for guest posts, projects, etc.

You can't get that if you have your nose under the hood of your site all day long.

Keep it going, Jim.

Re: I’m following you!

ALRADY40 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:32:30 -0000

now this link is all messed up because my ehow profile is stinking right now.

BUT ANYWAY if I were to link you there on the profile I have with my other articles and bio would that increase your page rank?

OR If we all gave this blog a digg and a stumble or a tweet etc. Does that offset the follow? This is making me more curious. THANKS

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ALRADY40 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:30:13 -0000

So tell me something because keywording and comments is having a HUGE discussion on ehow right now. If people commenting were to leave your blog name or url or other keyword that grabs your blog INTO their comments then does that INCREASE your page ranking... For instance If I were to link to your blog from my twitwall or blog. Of if I were to mentino that this blog JIMS Marketing Blog where you can make more sales and boost your profits with Jim Connolly - woud that then help offset loss by follows? Just curious.

Re: I’m following you!

John — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:09:52 -0000

A good way to find sites that have no follow turned off is Followtopia.

http://www.followtopia.com

It can be good for finding websites to provide relevant comments that link back to your site.

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Marketing Specialist - Jim Con — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:27:04 -0000

LoneWolf,

Your timing is excellent. The blog's PageRank actually went from a 3 to a 4 this week.

It's 4 months old so that's probably about right - Don't think I'm being penalized (yet).