There is a new problem with the rolling blogroll widget. This appears
to be generating lots of spurious "links to this post" under posts,
simply because the blog is in other people's rolling blogroll "latest
posts" feature.

A prime example is Iain Dale's Diary at http://iaindale.blogspot.com
which we spotted experiencing this problem on Tuesday.

<a href="http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/2008/12/iain-dales-
diary-gordon-browns.html">http://chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com/
2008/12/iain-dales-diary-gordon-browns.html</a>

Today the blog owner has issued a cry for help.

<a href="http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2008/12/too-many-links-mr-
mozart.html#links">http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2008/12/too-many-links-
mr-mozart.html#links">http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2008/12/too-many-
links-mr-mozart.html#links</a>

Which is naturally being plagued with irrelevant linkage.

I guess this might be fixed at either end of the problem. Iain is
getting dozens of links from train spotter and folk music sites - who
Google scores may be going crazy - as well as the odd political one.

This is affecting other platforms too.

In a related matter titles of my posts with have been initially
generated using the blog this feature become permalinks to the outside
site, rather than to my own posts, as is the case with all other
posts. Is that deliberate?

I am noting a similar problem - many links to my posts on one blog
from another blog that I write. They are all false links. I do not
create them. Perhaps there is a 'lazy compare' in some code somewhere
that thinks because these blogs have the same author that there is
some link

does this note constitute a report of an error?

On Dec 19 2008, 4:58 am, Chris Paul wrote: