SEO principles have long reminded us that blogrolling doesn’t parse well for search engines, which have conveniently been configured to ignore blogrolls. The code which Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, et al use to generate blogrolls automatically gets ignored by spiders. That’s why, whenever i add someone to my blogroll, i try to do a couple of things:
- announce it. you saw me do that yesterday. announcing it ensures that your expression of endorsement, friendship, commonality, or whatever, is made visible to spiders.
- click it. providing a link isn’t enough. if you want that link to show up in that blogger’s statistics, clicking the link you just made is essential. the spiders may eventually discover the link you provided in your post about blogrolling said blogger, but that can be up to three-to-four weeks later. after someone else has clicked the link in your blogroll. repeatedly. faithfully, even.
one thing that spiders do recognize is link titles. link titles are a handy way to increase the visibility of your site through your blogroll, and to increase the visibility of those whom you blogroll. link titles are a win-win for everyone involved. Wordpress’ blogroll system, for example, uses a “Description” field that is rendered as link titles in the blogroll. what i do when i blogroll someone is use their blog’s tagline as their blogroll description. this results in very nice links in this particular theme, which provides a specially-formatted popup for link titles. so, if for example, your blog has a tagline of “i like to eat live chickens”, anyone who does a search on “eat live chickens” will find not only you, but by association, me—provided, of course, that the link from me to you is clicked on.
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…why i am disdainful of organized religion.
when the organizations basically only exist for reaping profits despite their non-profit registrations—and when a duplicitous jackass like Benny Hinnpecker attempts to do so off the goodwill of the people of one of the most impoverished nations on the planet—that acrid, bitter taste in my mouth probably isn’t “joy”.
via Crooks & Liars….
above: but one of the faces of True Evil®.
the first-hand account:
My only thought is that if Mr. Hinn takes so much a single Ugandan schilling [sic] from the desperately poor and sick people longing, begging, for a miracle it will make him a spiritual predator, a spiritual terrorist.
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…the saga continues….
we last left our intrepid search engine reporter in his Wordpress stats. that was….oooops….three weeks ago. my how time flies when i’ve got a house on the market and various other things i jokingly refer to as “responsibilities”. today’s report comes from a mixture of Wordpress Stats and Google Analytics. remember, you can sell your soul to Wordpress and Google at any time. just like commander other did!
- graph and corruption ~ congratulations. someone learned how to spell it right!
- muslim hookers ~ oh yes, there are such things!
- chuck-n-huck ~ what’s upchuck? Chuck-n-Huck!
- link:http://zaiusnation.blogspot.com/ ~ yes, Dr. Zaius. commander other still loves you. well, actually, being partial to hopeless causes, he secretly has a thing for Germaine Gregarious. but i digress….
- “i’m not comparing mccain to hitler. hitler had a coherent tax policy” ~ stupid Coulter bitch. and yes, the title “i love the right wing” was dripping with sarcasm.
- “miracle of america” hegemony ~ that’s interesting. gets a partial-word-score on “miracle”: STFU. hrm, i see i should someday sync up my tags. hegemony: tag. keyword.
- jcpenney spring collection ~ holy cow. i forgot about this one!
- arizona senator dyke’s email ~ er…um…sounds like an interesting search. “arizona senator” triggers this guy, though.
- big butts.com ~ domain names don’t have spaces in them, dumbass (yeah, pardon the pun. pfft!) maybe you like big butts? Rudy does.
- clip art, steaming turd ~ Gah! Delia! they’re trying to steal your Christmas present!
- condi´s legs ~ GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wish they’d stop showing them.
- condi nude ~ MY EYES! MY EYES! MY EYES!
- feeding frenzy ~ she’s so beautiful when she sees money.
- jewel ~ she’s so cool. and relevant. and totally not a poser. really.
- pez xanax ~ hey, that’s a nice one. i’ve got just the thing for you!
- pictures of laura bush in a pantsuit ~ bummer. this is one of those old ones from when i wasn’t keeping the photos locally.
- white bitches ~ i guess i thought this one was funnier than everyone else did. o well!
- lots of love doll drink ~ hrm. okay. i gots lots of love dolls.
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