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Sorry should have put the full url;
http://www.fat-odin.com/blog/2007/09/30/jack-ki...

try this one too, after thinking about it, it's also me but it's more appropriate (I shoulda thunked!);
http://www.fat-odin.com/blog/2007/09/23/it-star...

Yup nothing about Jack Kirby. Plenty here, though, for anyone interested; http://tinyurl.com/cnso2x

RIP Michael, and RIP Jack. One views their leaving us with heavy heart. Both people who hugely affected arguably several entire generations. Sad there was no recognition or fanfare for Jack at the time of his passing the was there is for MJ.

This kind of move only benfits the people making it, not the people who actually are living there at the time. Sure, the area itself is now way nore upwardly-mobile and better off than previously, and this can truthfully be reported. The people who used to live there don't benefit though, if anything they're penalised by being forced to uproot. This doesn't get reported locally as everyone does it and all local papers have political fealties. This is why it's only the British who can dispassionately and independently report on these matters.

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I think you only need to alter the first instance of anchor text of any link (to any one site). That's the current theory anyway.

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Of course it will. Sometimes a blog format isn't the best as a busy one will merge the boundaries between that and with a forum. Perhaps we should start calling ourselves forbloggers or blogrums. Bring on the new software!

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I have to say, seeing the NCC1701 move out of the darkness and hearing that music again... the blood runs hot once again :-)

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Does anyone know where the latest list of dofollow blogs is these days please? From the old one I found a really good blog on finance and related issues where they like what I write and I like the link-juice I get for my SEO clients from it so I go back to it more often than I need to for strictly commercial purposes. I try to remember there's a distinction between a blog and a forum though. Anyhoo, I could use an up-to-date list so I can search out good rewarding blogs on other subjects that will repay my contributions with some linky-lurrrrrrve, baby. Woh yeah :-)

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I didn't say he'd be the most-liked :-)

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Hi, I will readily agree that the colour scheme is appealing but would remind you that if Hemingway came back and blogged it'd probably be almost impenetrable visually but still among the most-read on the planet. Words make blogs, not colours :-)

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Why people would lie about dofollow is to get you to create content on their site for free. It's very web 2 but it ain't honest! Better and more related content than the next guy will, loosely speaking, get you ranked higher in the search engines so, if you've got a money-making site, it's very much in your interest to get people to leave thematically-related comments on your site as much as you can. I blog myself occasionally, on my music site, I won't tell you where as I don't have the content I want to sell on it yet, but when I do, I'll be nofollowing that blog and adding it to all the lists. OK, I know I'll have to be checking for outright spam comments but if you want to make a little money you have to be prepared to do the work.

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Ah, mlankton, you emailed me personally or Ben? I get between six/seven thousand emails a week, (my ISP loves me!) and unless you put SEO in capitals in the subject line or similar I'll very probably miss you. I scan the subject lins and thast's it. mostly, everything gets deleted on the server.

But I'm glad to hear that it's not only me having problems posting.

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Nope, didn't work, I'm going to try two shorter posts.
well they didn't work either. I note that Andy has made some longer posts but I have to say you have a problem on this blog, posts over a certain length just cause it to freeze.

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You see this page?

http://www.instigatorblog.com/wp-comments-post.php

Well, if I do a long post, in FF it just freezes on this page and the post doesn't get made. I'm trying this in IE7, let's see how this one goes.

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It would be nice actually if the web went back to how it was originally with everyone using dofollow by default but responsibility was exercised by default by posters. Sigh :-(

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(three posts and counting :-)

Andy says "It is a great way to encourage legitimate thought provoking comments, and links from others."

Yes absolutely, and the good thing about that is peer pressure will mean the majority of bloggers will have to at least consider rethinking their nofollow policy or else risk having to write all their own content. The MFA community won't like that!

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Amy asks "... won’t the links become less valuable?"
In the sense of passing link value back to your site, Google-juice if you will, yes they will become less valuable. As more and more links are made from this very page, for example, the PR that's passed by each one will diminish.

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