What's rong with Blogrolling.com?

Phoebe asks:

Dear Skeezix,
Do you know why blogrolling isn't working? none of the blogs say which blogs are updated. It's making it hard for me to catch up on my friends. I just wondered if anyone else noticed it. I went to blogrolling website and everything was just normal there.

This happens peeriodikly. I'm pasting in a post frum my 1/03/07 blog, in wich Victor Tabbycat ixplanes part of the problim and how yoo can git yer blog to show as updated:

"This is copied strate frum the Cat Blogosphere, frum advice that my best frend Victor Tabbycat gave on gitting Blogrolling.com to note that yer blog has bin updated. I think they wint on a permunint vakayshun!:

Victor Tabbycat haf sum reely tekneecal advice if u's use Blogroll: Ok, so it's not really news, but if you use Blogrolling fur your linkies an NONE of them say updated, wul, that's happenin to efurryone but the support beans is fast asleep an hidin.

Anyway, there's ONE way to make sure anyone who links to you wif Blogrolling knows you've updated.
1) Go to http://www.blogrolling.com/ping.phtml.
2) Fill out the form.
3) Click Ping (the button, not the kitty at Abby's house)

For asample, I puts "Bonnie Underfoot and Victor Tabbycat" in the first box an "http://2tabbys.blogspot.com/" in the second box. I fink if they don't start fixing Blogrolling or at least talkin to the users who are askin them to fix it, we should all go ofur an HISS at them.

BTW, Blogrolling is run by TuCows an we might haf to hiss at them too. Are cows as vishus as deer? I fink I furgot to mention that if you "ping" blogrolling, you haf to do it EVERY time you post. I sure hope they fix it soon!

Thanks Victor (and the Cat Blogosfeer) for publishing this importint informayshun!Sum of us are lost withowt the pinging becuz it takes so much more time to vizit all the blogs! I uzhully go down my long list and vizit all the updated wuns, but if I don't know hoo has an update, I have to vizit evry singul one... it takes forever, and I can't git to evry wun. So taking the time to ping win Blogrolling's auto-ping is down will
rezult in more vizits to yer blog. Reely! I promiss!"

How do I add + and - sines next to blogrolls to expand/close?

My best frend Lux asks:

I've been having trouble trying to set up other blogrolls on my blog, i.e., PhotoHunters blogroll + Wordless Wednesday. I'm using the New Blogger, and what I'd like is to have those + and - signs next to the blogrolls like I've seen on other sites. Can anybody help me?

If yoo'll go to http://www.skeezixthecat.com/bloghelp/expandMenu.html, I've provided two examples, and snippets of the code yoo'll need to implement eech.

The example shows the blogrolls for WW and Photo Hunters, but yoo can substitute or add new blogrolls eezily by replacing thoze blogroll scripts with the blogrolls (or list of links) yoo wunt to display.

How do I get that long list of blogs to show up on my sidebar?

Sanjee's note: FYI, Yoo can't use the javascript for blogrolling.com on wordpress.com blogs. They don't allow anny javascript for security reasins. Purrrrrs, Sanjee

That list of links is referd to as a blogroll. Go to blogrolling.com to set up yer own kustum list, or go to http://www.skeezixthecat.com/bloghelp/blogroll.html to get the snippet for Skeezix's List of Links. Copy and paste that snippet into yer sidebar.

The advantage to using blogroll (vs. hand-coding yer list) is that it can be set to sort the list in whutever order yoo like (alpha, ascending width, descending width, etc.) and the blogs yoo list automatikly ping blogrolling.com win they are updated*. If the blog has bin updated reesintly, it will display "new post" (or any other text yoo designate) next to it ... wich is vary handy win viziting other blogs. Also, if yoo have multiple blogs, yoo only need to update the list in one place if yoo use blogrolling.com.

Junior asks...

Hey Skeezix and all the helpers,I have started having Meowm do the ping thing....so that others know when I have blogged....but how does Meowm make my blog show when others have pinged? Thanks tons for your help!

Ferst, let me explane pinging. If yoo go to Blogroll and manyully ping yer blog so that it shoze up as being updated, whutever blog yoo enter in the form will show up as being updated (don't put in a non-updated blog). In yer blogroll preferinses for yer own blogroll list, yoo can indicate whut yoo want prepended or appended to links so yoo know they've bin updated -- uzhully, yoo put "updated" or "new post" or sumthing like that. It takes a cuppul of minits after yoo fill owt the form, and then yer blog will show up as updated in all of the blogrolling.com lists in wich it appeers.

If yoo've manully pinged and yer blog is not showing as updated in other link lists, it's probably becuz thare not using blogrolling.com to make thare blogroll. Why not shoot them an emale and sugjest that they set up thare list on blogrolling.com?


Cats, Goats, Quotes rites:

I've been adding the blogroll to my sidebar, but, as I've seen in other blogs, there are no 'updates' or 'new posts' so far. Am I leaving something out? Thanks...You have been so helpful in many ways!!

I chekt bak on yer blog and I see thare showing up now. They will not show up rite away -- after yoo've created yer blogroll, the updates will only display win blogs are updated on a "going forwerd" basis. So always give it a day or so for updates to start displaying.

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* Ixsept win this feechur is broken, in wich case yoo can manully ping by going to http://www.blogrolling.com/ping.phtml