Here’s what I do: First, I buy my tires at the Sears service center there. (I know, it’s a high price to pay for a parking spot unless you need new tires.) Once I have tires from Sears, every time I go to the mall, I park in the Sears service center lot, which is on the South side of the mall on the Southeast side of Sears, go into the service center and ask to have my tires rotated and then stroll into the mall. When I’m done, my tires are rotated, a friendly Sears associate greets me with my keys and I have a parking spot that is steps away from the entrance to the food court. I didn’t say it was particularly convenient, but it does fall under multi-tasking, right? And try to get your tires rotated by the valet at a fancy restaurant in Portland.

We always appreciate comments on this site, and sometimes we even get legitimate ones. Most of the time, however, the comments we get are nonsense, or in Russian, or both.

They come from offshore minions who are hired by online businesses to write relevant comments in order to get them published. They often place links in their comments, or link to sites on their profiles, to try to attract traffic to their own sites and to get “bonus points” from search engines (esp. Google) for these links back to their sites.

This is called comment backlinking and is a form of linkspam. It used to be a very devious way to build backlinks to sites, which in turn made the sites look more important to search engines and could increase their rankings. Our site (as with most modern sites) is equipped with a “no-follow” tag added to comment links. This piece of code tells search engines to ignore the backlink value of these links. While not all blogs use this tag, more are every day making this type of linkspam effectively obsolete.

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