I’m Number One and I Love You!
Okay, I’m not really number 1 on Technorati.
I know, I know…you’re shocked to find out it’s not true and that Technorati was merely having a brainfart but damn! It sure looks priddy, don’t it?
As it was clearly a mistake, I took a screenshot for posterity, kind of like when you go to the fair and stand behind the wooden cutout of a very well-endowed female figure and have your picture taken.
Look at me and my big cartoon boobs Technorati ranking! Weeee!
ORIGINAL POST TOTALLY EDITED ALL TO HELL. THIS IS THE NEW STUFF:
Since writing this post on the generosity of becoming a “do follow” devotee, Google has changed their policy on counting “do follow” acquired links and actually started punishing people for disabling the “do follow” code on their blogs. For that I apologize. If I’d had any idea they would decide to diss millions of users in that manner, I would never have recommended the blogger-friendly “do follow” policy. So please, if you have a do-follow plugin or if you altered your code, you may want to change it back so as not to be kicked down to a pagerank of zero. I know it sucks but it’s Google’s internet. We just live on it.
One thing you can still do to show some love to your commenters (if you’re on Wordpress) is install the Comment Luv plugin, which uses elfin magic to figure out a commenter’s last blog post and puts a link to it at the end of their comment. I actually have it installed on my blog, too, but had to disable it after moving to a new template. It wasn’t displaying correctly due to some modification I made and I haven’t had time to figure it out.
If you’re a part of the DO FOLLOW movement, let me know so I can list your blog here I’m going to leave these links here because even if they’re no longer doing “do follow”, at least they gave it a shot (and these link DO count toward their page rank):
IzzyMom
eMoms at Home
MomGadget
Scribbit
Tricia’s Musings
Pointless Drivel
Lifecruiser
Paula Neal Mooney
Polliwogs Pond
Empower Women Now
Temporarily Me
Assertagirl
Freak Parade
Mrs. Flinger
Absolutely Bananas
Oh the Joys
Mom on the Rise
Table For Five
Madness, Madness I Say!
Love, Laughter and Madness
Magpie Musing
Chaos Theory
Slackermoms R Us
The Z Files
All Things Angela
Devilish Southern Belle
O for Obsessive
Something Baby Blue
The Humble Housewife
Playgroups Are No Place for Children
Fenicle
Wandering Far From Home
Mommy Bytes
Blogversary
Hello Insomnia
Hola Isabel
The Metamorph
Boogiemum
Slackermama
Ruth Dynamite
Suburban Oblivion
No Place Like It
What Was I Thinking?
Candid Yammering
Taste Like Crazy
All About Diggy
OMSH
Much More Than a Mom
Tiny Mantras
Dr. MOZ
The Hotfessional
Most|Least
Up in the Night
Laura Lohr
Almost Somewhat Positive
Midwestern Mommy
Tales from the Dad Side
Savvy Mom
And for the LOVE OF GOD, people, if you’re part of that 30% contingency that’s STILL using Internet Explorer 6, do yourself and web designers everywhere a favor and please upgrade to IE 7 or even better? Switch to Firefox…the gold standard in browsers. (Yes, you can import your bookmarks from IE. It’s really easy)
Seriously, it’s almost impossible for me to see what my work looks like in IE 6 (because it’s OLD & they don’t even make it anymore for my computer) but I can usually count on it looking BAD because IE 6 does not properly interpret modern standards of web design. In other words, it SUCKS, makes everything look like crap and hello? It’s ancient. Just switch to Firefox. Or upgrade to IE 7 if you must. Please? I’m begging!
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Ok, now I know I’m old. I have no idea what you’re talking about. Good thing you’re my blog-goddess, even if I am at the bottom of the waiting list!
Thank you, Izzy. I love that I can learn something here, as well as be entertained. :)
(P.S. I am part of the Dofollow movement.)
I’m a do follow commenter, and I’ve had the WP plugin for a while now. I try my hardest to share the love because we all like to see our page rank increase a little! ;)
Good on ya for posting this and joining in Izzy! *smooches*
You know I’m on this like a fat man on a pile of free nachos. I’ll let you know when I’m all fixed up.
Thanks for the links - I had read about this before but had no idea how to change mine as I’ve only ever seen wordpress instructions. I will be changing this tonight.
I wish I knew what you were talking about. It sounds very pretty, though. Can I get one in red?
Yeah. I’ve tried to understand all this page rank stuff before and I just DON’T understand it. Nor anything you just said.
This makes me sad. And perhaps a little stupid.
Huh. I’m confused, but I’ll try to figure this one out. Cuz, y’know, you told me to.
Thank-you for explaining this - I saw the U-follow stuff but didn’t know what it was. I’ll fix it up on my blog.
oops, spoke too soon. I can’t do it b/c I am not on the advanced template version of typepad. One more reason why I have to switch over to self hosted if only I knew what I was doing…
My blog is a do follow blog. that is one of the reasons I switched to self-hosting. Thanks for posting this. Hopefully more people will do it.
Crap. I have Blogger classic, so I can’t switch. Perhaps it is time for me to bust out. Email me and let’s talk about you doing a redesign!
I tried to remove the nofollow code from my template, but because it’s a custom, I don’t seem to be able to. I left a comment on the blog link you provided and I’m hoping that I can figure this out. I don’t want to include that button until I get it sorted. I’m almost (only almost) tempted to go back to a standard template, even though they’re boring.
I’ve been a part of the FOLLOW movement for a few months now. I feels liberating, doesn’t it?
SueBob, you can switch with blogger classic. I did, and it works just fine. Just find the code on your template and remove the No Follow clause. Voila!
Thank you for explaining the whole gig. I’ve always been a “do follow” commenter. I didn’t realize there was another option. Oh, yea, I’m with the program. :-)
Of course you get credit if you comment on MY site. And now I’m off to make it all official-like…
I’m a follower! Thanks sister girl.
Wow, congrats :) I will do my very very best to change mine, not that I get very many comments. I thought this was to prevent people from madly commenting on all sorts of blogs just to change their ranking. So I’ll try to not go crazy :) I sometimes don’t comment when I see SO MANY I feel I’ll get lost in the crowd anyway - and it’s not like it improved my ranking (kidding!)
And, here I thought I was your only lover.
I love it when you boss me around.
I’m on it like my dog sniffing vomit…
What?!! Some people blog to make money?? Some people care about their page rank??? nooooo!!! my illusions are shattered! My eyes! My eyes!
Ok, seriously. Thanks for the great post and add me to the list of the GOOD GUYS cause oh boy do I follow!
Oh, wow, thanks, Izzy! I really appreciate the heads-up. How did I not know of this before? At any rate, I’m FOLLOWing now.
I just read about this the other day. What a great idea. And congrats on being #1 (even if it was a mistake…)
Most of that stuff is way over my head - but congratulations on your ranking!
Yep…this was my weekend (along with shifting blogs over to my own domain).
I also appreciated that brief moment when I was #1…and DUDE! You so yanked out the rug from under me. I have a blog post about this queued up for tomorrow LOL!
Julie
Ravin’ Picture Maven
Wow, and to think I KNOW you. Er, well, kind of. I’ve always dreamed of having a famous friend :)
My 30 second brush with glory… A moment I will never forget *sigh*
Have just fixed mine to follow. I follow. I do. I do follow. (I am known to do whatever you say as you are fully aware.) :)
P.S. Izzy I didn’t catch this in your post so SORRY if I glazed right past it and am being redundant.
Classic blogger can’t be altered for FOLLOW. It uses a different setting. The only NOFOLLOW is for backlinks and you don’t want to remove that. In case anyone is codehunting and altering.
Julie
Ravin’ Picture Maven
I am terrified I would mess something up and accidentally delete my blog if I tried (I did that once) but I may try this anyway. You are awesome Izzy.
Here I am all excited to get an Izzy link… but I feel terrible to rain on this parade.
I had SO many problems with being a DoFollow blog that I had to turn NoFollow back on. :( Once you advertise that you’re on the DoFollow list, you’ll find that spammers literally hunt you down and spam the hell out of you with these sneaky comments that kind of look legit, but upon close scrutinization its obvious they are just going to DoFollow blog to DoFollow blog to simply do SEO work for their sites or their client sites.
Just today I got one for a kid carpet site, which I would normally LOVE to promote, but the comment was in poor English and originated from Asia, even though the site was supposedly run in Canada.
Another friend of mine found that comments left on his blog were redirecting to adult sites a few weeks later.
Of course, this stuff can happen whether or not you use DoFollow, but the proportion of scammers who comment on DoFollow blogs is a gazillion percent higher than on NoFollow blogs. While I was a DoFollow blog, I felt exploited about 3-5 times a day (yes, it really got that bad).
Sorry if this is too technical of a comment, and I am doubly sad that our first real conversation has to be about scammers. :(
But on a lighter note, there is a DoFollow plugin called LinkLove - it makes your comment links follow after 10+ comments, which is better imho than the regular plugin, because it scares off the spammy idiots, but still rewards frequent commenters.
But that’s all just my opinion. I’d love to hear your thoughts! :D
I don’t entirely get this except for the free sex part…that I understand…sort of.
But if you say I should do it, I’ll check it out.
Oh the mighty power you wield, my friend.
Thank you! I’ve wanted to do this for ages but have been too lazy to look for the Blogger instructions to remove the do not follow command.
” Hey! I love you guys and to show my appreciation, I’m giving away FREE SEX all day tomorrow!”
All right, I’m here, and I’m ready! bwahahaha!!!
Thanks for switching to Do Follow! I have it too, but I keep forgetting to put the badge up, I”ll do it right now.
Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer!! Firefox Forever :)
I don’t think I know what you’re talking about, but I did it anyway. :)
Well there you go speaking Swahili again. Geesh. Bossy is trying to keep up with your technical savvy but it’s very hard when her brain is the size of a meta tag and your’s is the size of Firefox.
So look- Bossy will investigate this situation although she fears her Typepad account isnt advanced — which should serve as no surprise since nothing about Bossy is advanced.
Izzy,
Thanks SO much for explaining this U comment, I follow business! I’ve been seeing it pop up everywhere, but had no idea what it was about. I will definitely change my template to allow this as we all love page rank (I’m still waiting for mine to recover from moving domain names).
I’ll do it, I’ll do it! I don’t have time today, though. :)
AND YES! EVERYONE, DUMP IE6. BLECH, COUGH, GAG!
Here via Oh the Joys. I joined Bumpzee and the ‘I follow’ movement….though I’ve had the nofollow stuff removed for a while now. Where can I get a nifty “u comment i follow” graphic? I already have an iReply button, but people might understand “I follow” better.
You and my husband with the giving away free sex all day. Man, now I’ve got to fake a headache here, too!
Usually I have the attention span of a beatle, so you should know I read this ENTIRE post. That’s a lotta love for you :-).
Oh, I forgot to say, I agree with Wendy, get the Linky Love plugin, so that your comments don’t start following until the person has left, say, three of them. Most spammers aren’t that persistent.
And could you please add Table for Five, MomReviews, and MomCooks to your Do Follow list? Thank you sweetie!
I’m going to put this up tonight on my site. So you can add me to the list tomorrow morning!!!
You know I saw that button and thought it meant that if I comment on here, you’d comment back….HA HA! Little do I understand in this computer world.
Done!
Uh…that part about free sex….so…uh…when are you coming over?
Neat! Followed over from Oh the Joys and have signed up on the U Comment I Follow. I also tried to explain it a little bit so that my non-tech-savvy mom doesn’t get confused and think it means people are going to be stalking her.
My husband has seen your photo. If he reads this post where you talk about FREE SEX, I think his butt would be on a plane in hopes of finding you! heehee.
I will follow. Put me on that there list….
doing this ASAP. thanks for the head’s up. AND, AND remember that glorious day when we were all number 1? I tried to screen shot, but evidently I’m a moron and don’t know how.
Izzy, I love yuour site (I hope you remember me) and you helped me a lot when I was pregnant. Anyway, I follow too.
okay, just followed and got the button for my blog….I’m all in.
I encountered a problem… SO don’t put me on that list just yet. Will let you know tho…
I just deleted no follow from my template. Please add my site to your list, and if you don’t mind telling me how I get one of those “I follow” doohickies on my site. Thanks.
it keeps saying there’s something wrong with the proxy server? What the hell is THAT?
Thanks for the great instructions. I have attempted to do this several times. I now follow :)
I also do the Do Follow on my blog. It’s only fair!
I’ll need the URLS to the last two blogs
Thank you :)
Wow- that’s a lot of info.
I have a headache and i didn’t get my free sex
Thanks for the lesson and the motivation to go ahead and use those darn advanced templates that I”ve been paying for but avoiding. Now that I’ve figured this out, and I now follow, maybe I’ll get braver and try some more new stuff.
I do follow because you are rocking it at number one! That was much easier than free sex.
I’m going to try this too (but you might have to do it for me like you did last time when I wanted the Izzy Badge) I also took a screen shot on that infamous day we were all number 1! I think we should start a flickr group and upload all our screen shots! But what is a google page rank? How do you know what yours is?
Thanks for the great tip. Have updated my template and will add the button shortly. Very cool - thanks again!
I’m getting right on this! Thanks for letting me know…I had no idea!
Okay, Izzy, I joined the Do Follow community…
I’m up! Add me to the growing list……
http://www.fenicle.com
Thank you! I’ve updated my template and I’m off to look into the whole UFollow business - which I’ve seen everywhere but didn’t exactly understand until now.
I don’t really understand what this all means, but it seems like I should do it anyway. I’m such a lemming.
I follow! Thank you for the tip!
I know I have it set on one blog, not sure about the other, either way add me to the list because I will be!
http://www.suburbanoblivion.com
Izzy speaks. Ruth listens. I’m a no follow fire fox now. Thank you!
Installing the plugin as I type this (the new “oneclick” plugin for WordPress is super handy for this, I’m learning). GREAT idea. I like the idea of giving people “credit” for their comments!
And I use Firefox too (and have for years now). Does that pretty much make me rock or what?
Upon reading your post, I decided to make my site a “Do Follow” too. Thanks for the advice and the info about the easy Wordpress plugin!
I’ve just installed the Wordpress Link Love plugin. I came from Zoot and had no idea what all this stuff was about ’till I read your post.
So, um, yeah, Do Follow!
I added the plug in to my site. Thanks for the info.
I follow now! Yippee!
Hello Insomnia
I follow now! Yippee!
Hello Insomnia
I’m in.
I think.
I suck at code.
hmmm. i just sort of wanderedd over here, and what do you know? i didn’t know about any of these google hijinks.
anyway, i use wordpress, and i will try to figure out t hisi plug-in thing of which you speak. i mean, eventually i have to figure them out, so i might as well start with this one.
i am a little concerned about the spam stuff–i already get quite a bit. but! i hear there is a plug-in for that, too!
and, you know, if it starts to suck i can always change it.
it’s worth a try…if we can all help each other out, why wouldn’t we?
seems easy enough.
I’m there! I’m hoping this means my new template (!) will be free of this evil? And I’m taking on Mrs. Chicky for that plate of nachos!
I am a do follow. I think my rank is negative because I am one of those “small” bloggers. But, hey I can dream right?
Hey Izzy,
I made the changes to my template and now a proud member of the I Follow movement! Please add mommy bytes!
free sex and commenting (before or after?)–count me in!
Let the dog in!
well Im new to blogging and dont know much about it at all but I did do as you said and removed the no follow from my template.I dont think it matters much in my case as I dont think anyone reads it anyway LOL! Thanks for the advise though.
I’m reading, I’m learning, and as if that wasn’t good enough, I am being amused. Very helpful, all around.
Cheers!
Count me in - I’m a little slow to the technological stuff but once an idea makes sense (as this so clearly does!), I’m all about it - !
thanks for the information. i’m following you sister!
You can count me in as well.
I even have a purty little badge on my site. :)
I’ve removed the NO Follow from my template. I’m part of that movement! What a great thing! Now where to find the little widget….????
Can you put me on your list, too? TIA!
Wait a sec…is this post NOT about free sex? I read all the way to the bottom and it was just a joke. geez, I feel ripped off! ha!
I really have no experience with DOFOLLOW, etc. Great, more work and research I need to do…
I’m here via OTJ, and just wanted to say that I’ve made the modifications to my blog (although I haven’t put the snazzy button up yet) to advertise it.
FINALLY. I figured it out. DUH! Am now part of the DoFollow movement. Woot.
I AM part of the Do follow project, and I want to share linkie love with my readers too. :D thanks for posting this, I am hoping more people do this. You explained it much better than I did, LOL!
I do follow comments. I saw the Technorati glitch, but did not think about doing a screenshot. That is awesome!
Thanks so much for this. I do follow comments! I’ve added the bling to my blog and removed the code. :)
Sure hope this works… Thanks for the heads up!
Thank you for the insightful post-especially the directions on how to follow links. The no follow followers are certainly out of hand.
I’m a Do Follower too and have been for a while. I think it’s a great way to reward loyal commenters.
I didn’t know about the Bumpzee group though so thanks for the link.
I’m a Do Follower. I wish everyone was.
I’m brand new to the blogging thing- but love the idea of passing on the love. I’m working on becoming a Do Follower as we speak. Wish me luck!
Thanks for the reminder IzzyMom! We planned on including the Do Follow WP plugin on our new’ish blog “Dear Dr.MOZ” a few weeks ago, but totally forgot about it until running into this post.
We may not have it working until Monday, but we have IzzyMom link in the Parenting B’roll until then!
Have a great weekend,
Dr.MOZ
Thanks for alerting everyone to this! I’m adding an ifollow graphic on my blog and linking to this page.
Absolutely. You’re so smart. I’m installing the plugin now!
I “do follow” and I DO APPRECIATE your IE 6.0 flame. For the love of all things frozen with lime … everyone GO WITH FIREFOX!