Blogger Issue (Red Background)

zibblu · 08-27-2007, 11:25 AM

I use Blogger for all of my blog sites (and I have a lot of them.) Lately I've been running into a very annoying issue. I use "nofollow" a lot on outgoing links (to affiliate programs mostly) and lately Blogger seems to be inserting a RED background on these. Not all the time, just sometimes. Very randomly. It's extremely frustrating because then I have to go back into the post and edit all of these: style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" out. It just inserts those into my code because of the nofollow. This is extremely irritating because it looks very ugly to have a link with a red background and I think it keeps people from clicking on it.

And yes I do have SEO for FireFox on my computer - I have it turned off to look at my pages when I see these red backgrounds - That's not what's happening here - It's an actual red background code being inserted into the html by blogger.

Anyway my question is - Does anyone know how to keep this from happening? Besides just not using "nofollow" anymore and at this point if it's going to be this much of a headache, I may not.

bogs · 08-28-2007, 10:46 AM

the highlighting is different... i don't think you can change that...

zibblu · 08-28-2007, 11:58 AM

I don't understand your answer bogs... This thing of them (seemingly randomly) adding red backgrounds to nofollow links is a new thing. They didn't use to do this. If you are saying I can't do anything about it from within Blogger then OK... I guess for now I'm just going to stop using nofollow links altogether until they get this cleared up one way or the other because it's a major headache.

Maybe I should have used WordPress after all. This is the kind of stuff that just kills me about Google. They just do something without any regards for it how it effects webmasters it seems to me, and no communication about it.

zibblu · 08-28-2007, 12:12 PM

Just to be clear of what I'm talking about:

this html code is being added to my nofollow links: style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"

this doesn't seem to happen every time, but only sometimes - I haven't figured out what is triggering it to only happen sometimes.

I then go in and edit it out ... but sometimes blogger puts it back in AGAIN.