It appears that Technorati, a marvelous free tool I’ve been using to follow links to this blog has moved to a 10 day update.
I’m not going to complain because it was free and worked incredibly well.
But now I have no way of tracking links to BDBO when I want to.
I’d use MT trackback, but from what I’ve read the spam isn’t worth it.
Having had three tech specialists step in to stop the comment spam flooding I experienced earlier this year, I just don’t want to risk it. I spend enough time deleting still. And, if I’m understanding correctly trackback doesn’t work for some blogs.
Truth Laid Bear is okay, I respect his dedication, but I don’t want any buttons on the sidebar. And besides, I stopped caring about what my ‘rank’ was a long time ago. It’s also a few days behind.
So. What’s available?
This is kind of irritating, the least I should be able to do is pop over and thank someone when they link.
Blog geeks, it is your turn to shine.:^) What do you suggest?
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There’s also Google… Try this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=link:KGoX2I1jrJcJ:www.benedictionblogson.com/
It also seems to be behind, but it works. Sort of.
It seems like people used to use Trackbacks a lot more a year or so ago… Was it spam that made them stop? I still use them and I’ve never had a real trackback spam problem — not like in my comments. I’m still all for Trackbacking.
I’m for trackbacking in theory, but in practice I haven’t managed to get it to work reliably.
I rely on looking at my referrer logs to see who’s linking me. After all, it’s only the links that produce visitors that really matter.
Dean Allen has a pretty good referral tool that’ll save you the hassle of checking your logs any time you want to see what links people have been following to get to your site.
Andrew, the log I have with this host doesn’t work properly, I can’t track. It gives hit, cached, page views uniques and a spiffy java graph, the rest of what it provides needs a tech degree to begin to comphrend let alone make useful. The host caters to commercial sites.
This blog’s trackback doesn’t work properly either, I have used it, and haven’t sorted out the error messages, if they even can be.
I use Technorati, Daypop Popdex, Blogdex, Google, Yahoo etc. They are all behind.
Up until now Technorati was awesome. It was the perfect tool for non geeks.
I’ll check out Dean Allen, Andrew and get hold of my tech again. Thanks.:^)