Baddog is right, you need to make sure that your blog does not use 'nofollow' tags. If you're using wordpress you can uninstall "dofollow" as instructed above.
Bill, here is the code i use under permalinks
/%postname%.html
some folks use
/%postname%/
and if your post names are usually pretty long maybe /%category%/%postID%/ is better for you.
