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How to remove nofollow tags in a Typepad blog

July 31, 2007 by Tricia

Karen from a strange life was kind enough to write out instructions on how to remove the nofollow tags from a Typepad pro template.

Note that I do not, nor never have had a Typepad blog. These are the steps that Karen took when changing her blog over to a do follow blog and they worked for her.

Karen in her own words:

Converting a TypePad Blog Pro Level to a Do Follow Blog for a Total Neophyte Like Me

Set up your blog with all the modules you plan to use, and no widgets, because the widgets won’t make the transition. Now you’re ready.
Go to the ‘Weblogs’ Tab on the TypePad Page.
Choose the ‘Design’ tab in the ‘Weblogs’ page.
Go to ‘Saved Designs’ in the ‘Design’ page.
1. WARNING: ONCE YOU CONVERT TO ADVANCED TEMPLATE (IF YOU ARE ME) THERE IS NO GOING BACK. NOTHING WILL EVER WORK RIGHT IN YOUR BASIC TEMPLATE AGAIN.
Check the box next to your Current Design and click on the button ‘Convert to Advanced’. The program will clone your design and make one of them ‘Advanced’.
Go to ‘Current Design’ and you will see a list of Advanced Templates in 3 boxes: Index Templates, Archive Templates, and Template Modules.
Open a new window and in TypePad Help search for Advanced Templates: Individual Archives Template.
Open the Advanced Templates: Individual Archives Template and scroll down to Individual Archives Modules.
1. There are 3 boxes of code under this title:
2. Individual Entry (Module Name: entry-individual),
3. Comment Listing (Module Name: comment-list), and
4. Comment Form (Module Name: comment-form).
Now in Current Design click on ‘Create new template module’. Click the top box of the form that comes up to ‘Individual Archives’ then type in the exact module name from the Advanced Templates help page. Now, copy all the code in the help module’s box and paste it into the new module’s box. Click ‘Save’. Do this same sequence of actions for all three of the modules shown in the help boxes. So now, under Template Modules you should have:
1. comment-form
2. comment-list
3. entry-individual
Now the guy who did the REAL fix comes to the rescue!
Mike from the ConverStations blog wrote a post about removing nofollow from Typepad comment sections.
1. go to this website and copy the code he has in the ‘new comment-list module’ code box. Take it to your box in Template Modules labeled comment-list and, after removing the old code, paste it in.
2. now go to the entry-individual Template Module and find the phrase he tells you to change, and change it.

If you are persistent and pigheaded as I am, you will eventually make this into a do-follow blog!

There you have it. Between Karen’s written instructions and Mikes comment code you should be able to get your typepad blog to become a do follow blog and reward your visitors with back links whenever they comment on a post.

I’m not against website urls – I’m against comment spam

July 27, 2007 by Tricia

This is in response to those who have left comments on my post “Spammy comments and Comment Abuse“. I think that some people have misunderstood what I’ve written there.

Website owners that do not have blogs are misreading what I’ve written. Please read the post again and this follow up.

I do not say anywhere in my spammy comment post that I will not accept a comment at face value from someone leaving a website url rather than blog url.

What I did say was that a few were spoiling it for the rest by abusing do follow blogs – leaving similar comments on all my blogs no matter what the post is about, adding extra links, leaving lame comments that don’t have much to do with the post or my blog.

Bloggers are doing this too, but for the most part it’s those with website urls that are the most abusive. This makes me a little more suspicious of links to websites.

However, having said that – if you haven’t gone around to all my blogs leaving deep links to your website or a different website url on each of my blogs and your comment is relevant to the post well – your comment will get posted and I’ll leave your link in.

I tend to visit all the urls that are left in my comments. By this I mean I visit blogs and websites alike. If you are leaving an url to a link farm, and your comment is not relevant or if it’s very spammy (full of links!) well I will likely mark your comment as spam.

Please don’t be offended that my guard is up.

There’s just a few rotten apples out there. I get so many comments on all my sites that it takes a while to approve the comments. When I see suspicious behavior across all my blogs my guard goes up.

I love getting comments. If you leave me a decent comment I have nothing against that. Period!

One commenter on my Spammy comment post thought I wasn’t getting the point. That comments mean an increase in site traffic and possibly that I’ve gained a regular reader.

I totally get the point.

Perhaps when you see examples of the comment spam that HUMANS are leaving you’ll get my point too.

Valid comments will never be discounted on any of my sites. Seeing comments on a post does help encourage others to stop and leave their opinion as well. It can get a conversation going and help draw interest in the blog as a whole. I know that.

However, the kind of comments that I’m calling spam will never add to my sites conversation or traffic. These people are just dropping in to get a link or to leave as many links as possible and they don’t really care what I’ve written or what other visitors have written either.

I think I’ll gather some examples of the abuse I’ve seen and make a post about it – just to make it clear why my guard is up.

Also, while I’m at it … Leave your name:

I do reply to most of my comments as well so when someone only leaves a business name or a SEO related term and doesn’t at least sign their comment it makes me feel a little weird replying.

“Good point lumberjack discount wood cutter” – now doesn’t that look strange?

I like to get to know my visitors.

I want to write about things that I’m interested in that also interest my readers.

Naturally I can only tell if I’ve written posts that interest my site visitors if they leave comments. I get it. Yes, leave comments. I love them! Just please be sure to leave a comment that is actually about the post and not an ad for your site. Oh and yes leave your name!

Not being able to put a name to a regular commenter is kind of weird. If you’d at least also leave a name in your comment I’d appreciate it. Please don’t add an extra link with your name though. I tend to edit out duplicate links.

Hopefully this clears things up.

I’m not against website owners urls. I’m against spammy comments that do nothing more than advertise another persons site rather than add to the dialog of my post.

BTW I’m not just a blogger I also have two websites. One sites been in existence since 1995 so yes I know about site promotion and I’ve been around long enough to spot people abusing a site. I don’t tend to leave my website urls in comments that I leave on blogs because my websites are about exotic pets and they’d look a little weird on most of the blogs I visit regularly.

Use Niche Secrets to boost your online earnings

July 26, 2007 by Tricia

I was sent an eBook the other day. It’s called Niche Secrets, and you know what? I do believe I’ve learned a few things from this 29 page eBook.

Niche Secrets is a very well written and easy to understand booklet. It describes exactly what a Niche is, how to discover your own Niche and then how to begin writing articles, websites or eBooks about that particular Niche.

I actually learned a fair amount about Niches, marketing a niche product and how to write great articles and make money by creating product for a niche that I have a passion for, and I plan to use some of this information right away.

I’m excited about this. I’ve already got some niche blogs and since they’re already established it should be even easier for me to apply what I’ve learned from Niche Secrets and begin seeing results and having success quickly. I really believe that I could begin writing a Niche article this evening and see results by Monday – it really seems easy once you know how to do it.

I knew some of this information prior to reading the eBook, but you know how it is – you read some good information on one site, and something else on another and you try to remember all these good tips that you can apply to your own sites or to your writing techniques, but since these tips you’ve found are scattered across the internet and you’ve found them over time you never fully apply the techniques as you should right from the beginning.

That’s what’s great about this eBook and eBooks in general. You get all the information you need in one place and you can begin applying the tips and techniques right away.

If you want to learn more about making money by writing about and promoting Niche topics visit Niche Research and get a copy of Niche Secrets. This eBook is only $7 until July 31st so get your copy now.

I’m not against website urls – I’m against comment spam

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