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I’m on 25 Peeps! Will You Click My Picture?

July 6, 2006 by Liz

Fun Promotion for Personal Blogs

There are 25 pictures of individual people.
Each is hot linked to a personal website.
Click the picture you like and visit the blog.
The blogs most visited get into the Peeps Hall of Fame.

hendrik mans

Be sure when you check it out that you click the link in the bottom nav bar to visit the blog of hendrik mans the man who developed 25 Peeps. His personal blog is most interesting in its own right. He’s a web developer who has just shown he knows a bit about outside of the box blog promotion.

Could You Be a Hall of Famer?

You can upload your own picture and knock someone off the page. They’ll check your blog to make sure it’s a personal site–no business please. Then you can see whether you can make the Hall of Fame.

Click, Click, Enter

Click Me Here. Click Me There. Put Yourself in as a Candidate. We’ll track everyone who get up on the 25 Peeps every week.

Click the shot below to go there and get the detials. While you’re there will you click my picture to keep me up at 25peeps?

25 Peeps Liz

Send in your picture to get traffic to your personal weblog too. (It takes a few weeks to get up there.)

I heard about this from Sumeet Jain at Sumeet’s Treasures.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Filed Under: Community, Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Outside the Box, Successful Blog Tagged With: 25_Peeps, bc, blog_promotion, fun_stuff, henrik_mans, outside_of_the_box, Sumeet_Jain, sumeets_treasures, ZZZ-FUN

No More NoFollow

January 19, 2006 by Liz

I asked Sumeet Jain if I could republish this post of his here, because though I had heard of the issue, I didn’t fully understand it. He was more than happy to agree. I thought it best to include all parts of his article including comments. I encourage you to check out the links along the way for more information and an additional tutorial should you decide remove nofollow yourself. –ME “Liz” Strauss

no morefollow tutorial article and comments

no more nofollow
by Sumeet Jain

Monday, December 19th

If you’re a blog owner, please pay attention. Early this year, Google announced the nofollow value for the rel attribute. This made it possible for blog owners to stop Google from crediting sites comments link to. This was mostly received positively and most blogging platforms picked it up. WordPress, the most popular blogging platform, includes nofollow by default. The logic behind the move is to shut out comment spammers by not rewarding them. Whether or not that’s an effective way to shut them out is not what I care to discuss. I dislike nofollow because it’s antithetical to the web.

So I’ve removed it from my installation of WordPress, and I encourage you to do the same.

Removing nofollow yourself:

Open wp-includes/comment-functions.php.

Find “function get_comment_author_link”
Replace “return = “$author”
with “return = “$author“.
Save and close.

Removing nofollow via plugin:
I haven’t tested any of these, but they’re available nonetheless.

DoFollow

Follow URL

For an detailed explanation of why nofollow is bad, check out NoNoFollow.

COMMENTS

a little birdie named Jem told me,
There’s more to getting rid of nofollow that editing wp-includes/comment-functions.php – I wrote a tutorial on it AGES ago. 🙂 You can find it here: nofollow removal tutorial

i thought about it and responded,
Hi Jem, thanks for the link to the tutorial – nofollow certainly has been around long enough that many tutorials were written. I wanted to wait a bit and see what kind of reception it got and impact it had on the community. It’s sad that the way it was used was simply to stick it in all the comments – like a blanket solution to a very intricate problem.

It might have been nicer if platforms like WordPress were strategic in their use of nofollow. For example, if a blog has moderation enabled, then all comments can at least be shown initially but have nofollow included. I can definitely see a couple uses for it, but it really is unfortunate that the only prolific use of nofollow was to kill linking.

As a side note to others reading this, Jem’s tutorial will remove nofollow for links within the comment as well. For example, the link to her tutorial in her comment above would not have the nofollow value. Some of you may like to maintain that value while others may not.

a little birdie named Jem told me,
“like a blanket solution to a very intricate problemâ€? – I couldn’t have put it better myself.

I don’t have anything against those who choose to use nofollow, although I don’t believe in it myself.. my major problem with it when I used WordPress was that it was forced upon people. Why not have it as an optional feature? Of course, it’s not a problem for me since I coded my own weblog, heh.

i thought about it and responded,
I do have something against those who choose to use nofollow. It’s likely my own ignorance, because I can’t think of why they would use it.

a little birdie named Tauquil told me,
I’m all with you on this one.

i thought about it and responded,
Glad to have your support, Tauquil. I noticed that your blog is one of the few that does follow links. Props to you.

You’ll find this post and the follow-up post here:

This article: no more nofollow

The follow-up post: nofollow advocacy

–Sumeet and Liz

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