Alex Jeffreys’ Student Blogroll Restored, Somewhat!
Do you remember a few weeks ago how all Students of Alex were frantically zooming around each others’ blogs posting comments and hoping to be included in each other’s blogrolls. I do.
And it was quite taxing work, wasn’t it?
Things have settled down a little now. Some students have fallen by the wayside, others seem to be doing their own thing. And like the pubs around a village green some websites have become ‘the’ places to gather, which is of course great for their owners.
Everyone is frantically twittering to each other at present. There are a couple of people attempting to sell to their fellow students. Most of the videos have been submitted to the competition
Some are looking forward to learning that Alex has returned from his Bahamas trip and is ready to issue more encouragement and guidance.
A couple of days ago I wrote of how I decided to remove the list of students who had contributed here from my student blogroll.
Today I restored the list of people who were included on my blogroll as a separate page. It only seems fair since they did trouble to post here, and I was one of those insisting just a few weeks back that I would only add to my blogroll those who had created blogrolls on their web sites.
The official guidance from Alex was that by installing a no-follow links plug-in Google wouldn’t penalise anyone with a blogroll. That’s all well and good but that same method also means that any link will become ‘no-follow’ so if you’ve linked to a highly ranked web site then Google isn’t going to give you any credit for it when they come to rank you!
My solution is twofold:
I am continuing to run a live RSS feed from Google Blogsearch to maintain an in-time list of the latest posting from, or about Alex Jeffreys, and now I have made a page on the site that lists all the students who have helped me by commenting here ~ but the links to their websites aren’t clickable.
I feel better now 
Website Review : Alex Jeffreys
Alex Jeffreys is a blog aimed at students planning for their futures. There are articles on a variety of subjects of varying lengths. The blog has a nice clean layout and not too many advertisements which is nice.
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