Comments on: Blogging help

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:38:29 +0000

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.:^)

By: Andrew Duncalfe

Andrew Duncalfe — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:38:21 +0000

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.

By: Richard Hall

Richard Hall — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:51:43 +0000

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.

By: timsamoff

timsamoff — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:11:00 +0000

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.