Comments on: Linking 101

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:02:35 +0000

Very true Mitch. A couple tips…

If EVERY post is a trackback.

If it reads something like “Unknown recently wrote…”.

More often then not, it will be the default “Kubrick” WP theme, with not much else there.

Like Mitch said, you do tend to catch on to them pretty quick.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:30:31 +0000

Hi Laura. If I’m not sure, I’ll usually follow the trackback to see where it originated from, then decide if I feel it’s legit or not. After awhile, it’s pretty easy to know whether it’s legitimate or not based on the name of the blog that you see listed with the trackback.

By: Laura-Whateverebay

Laura-Whateverebay — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:46:00 +0000

Great post, and for you. Recently, I have received suspicious trackbacks. How can I rule them out from legitimate ones?

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:22:43 +0000

Heck Brad, we reached the end of the comments thread, so I had to start another one.

You say benefits and other things; like what other things? I get the linking part.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:38:59 +0000

“and sometimes people just don’t see it that way.”

Nope they sure don’t. Egos wouldn’t be an issue if they did…real shame, really.

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By: Brad Hart

Brad Hart — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:41:47 +0000

You can make the comments perfectly well without registering, it just requires people to make more of them before the nofollow goes away. I think it is pointless to make most blogs registration only for comments. However if you add the option of registration you can offer people who want to become involved in the site something more.

I have seen the benefit on several popular blogs of getting live links and profiles. I am really going to push the benefit of registering for a few sites this year to get more involved members. The more involved your members are, the easier the site becomes to manage and when you run more than a dozen blogs of your own that is something you can’t afford to pass up.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:36:12 +0000

I wouldn’t doubt that one bit, Mr. Dennis. Thing is, there has to be a bit of fairness involved in everything, and sometimes people just don’t see it that way.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:20:24 +0000

Oh how true. Ego destroys everything in it’s path. Sad considering a lot of really high potential JV’s never really go anywhere because of it.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:44:00 +0000

That’s actually a good point, Mark, but I think we can look at the strained relationship between Google and Yahoo and see why it doesn’t seem to work all that often. Someone always wants to be the big dog.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:17:19 +0000

I’m actually amazed that I haven’t seen more dual advertising campaigns – were two companies team up to promote not one – but two products. Even if the one parent company did it. This sort of reminds me of that – If there wansn’t a relationship between the two entities then surely there should be one created other than putting more stress on the legal arena.

In local business there is lots of – Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:32:49 +0000

I have to admit that I’m one of those people who won’t register to make comments on blogs, and in general I hate registering for stuff, though occasionally I do it. Even wrote a blog post about it a long time ago; I guess it’s my own way of being snarky (I like that word).

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:00:40 +0000

Now this is an idea, thanks!

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By: Brad Hart

Brad Hart — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:08 +0000

Will there is a cool way to help yourself when you get scraped. Always check out the blog that scraped you on Alexa and look at its incoming links. These blogs linking to the scraper are probably in your niche and likely have a low or no threshold for dofollow links. They make great places to comment on or get trackbacks from.

If you want to know how effective this can be I have new blog with all of 4 posts get scraped twice. By tracking down the sites on Alexa I now have a list of 700 blogs that will provide me with places to comment and get backlinks from. I expect my march PR update will send this blog somewhere between pr 4 and pr 6 if I can get linked on all of them by that time.

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By: Brad Hart

Brad Hart — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:36:42 +0000

I am not sure the button size or statement has done anything other than made that snarky part of me feel better. Since going to a non standard button my comments have dropped a little, but I don’t know that it has anything to do with the button. What has killed my comments to some degree was changing my dofollow policy to eliminate in comment text dofollow text inks for unregistered users and making it so they needed 4 comments before their heading link went dofollow. With this change I stop showing up as a dofollow blog in some search tools.

Registered users get full benefits, and despite getting some registered since opening that option up very few have registered or taken advantage of the dofollow links in the forum, their profile or to submit guest articles for consideration.

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By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:49:44 +0000

That’s actually a nifty idea lol. Do you really see a difference in relevant comments?

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