Link Love Request

I appreciate those who took their time to link to my blog every time they mention me in their entries or permanently add my URL on their blogrolls.

Back in April last year when I decided to move to WordPress from my own home-brewed CMS, I did it in haste and not wanting to ruin my old site, I moved the new blog to yugatech.com/blog, something that I now regret (just a wee bit). I did a permanent 301 redirect so I managed to inheret my old PR5 and had I not changed my blog URL, I could have gone to PR6 by now. Anyway, what’s done is done and I shall have that coveted PR upgrade soon.

In any case, Matt Cutt’s entry about URL canonization got me to posting this little request:

Please edit the links to my blog to the ff:

http://www.yugatech.com/blog

No biggie actually, only if you have the time and the patience. :D For uniformity sake, Google lovin’ and Technorati tracking (more of Technorati tracking actually). (please note of the www and no trailing slash after blog)

I suggest you should ask the same request for your blog from your fellow bloggers too. Spread some SEO awareness a little bit.

Many, many thanks!

[tags]inbound, links, google juice, pr, serps[/tags]

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Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

12 Comments

Manuel Viloria says:

20 years ago

🥈 Silver🏆1

Hi Yuga,

The trailing slash makes a difference? Wow… I thought trailing slashes are good because they make people see your page faster.

Wait… a search on Google for “yugatech” shows the trailing slash.
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jhay says:

20 years ago

okies, i was laughing at myself, only now i realised that i haven’t put a link to your site from mine, to think that its included in my regular reads…

anyways, the link is now there,

rak en rol!
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Migs says:

20 years ago

💠 Supremacy🏆1

Well what do you know, Technorati knows how to canonicalize and remove the / from blog/ .

I’ll come up with a post for this link. I quit “blogrolls” a long time ago, and so has Abe it seems – that’s so… first half of 2000s?
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Abe Olandres says:

20 years ago

🥉 Rookie🏆3

@ manuel

Yeah, that’s why I’d like to correct it and just focus on just one as a standard.

@ jhay

Thanks a bunch.

@ Migs

It is said that blogrolls have low weight compared to really putting the links within your content so I make sure I give out them links via a blog post/entry.
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kzap says:

20 years ago

🥈 Silver🏆1

i’d put the trailing slash
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Abe Olandres says:

20 years ago

🥉 Rookie🏆3

The one with the trailing slash (www.yugatech.com/blog/) is only PR 4. The one without is PR 5.
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