Comments on: Blog Linking Declining

By: Will

Will — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:26:49 +0000

how do you get thos ‘diggesque’ thumbs up/down things on your blog?

By: CrunchNotes »

CrunchNotes » — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:29:11 +0000

[...] Scoble has a good long cathartic rant on the state of linking in blogs, with multiple updates, apologies and a few random scuffles in the comments. Good stuff. Digg This [...]

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:48:23 +0000

Mike

A very interesting post which gave me lots of food for thought.

On the trackbacks – It’s abused a lot by sploggers, so I can see why a lot of larger blogs (traffic wise) would disable them, as apart from the amount of moderation required they can also put excessive load on a server.

Michele

By: Ben Strackany

Ben Strackany — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:45:57 +0000

Or along the lines or what smithee wrote, what if someone came up with an ajax-y blog or browser widget that scans the current blog & inserts related links in a popup or whatever? Although maybe that would get annoying…

By: Say No to Crack

Say No to Crack — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:07:58 +0000

This is happening at all levels, sometimes it’s kind of funny though.

For example, some of the smaller blogs will copy a bunch of my content, but never link to my site, just as you notice. What’s funny is that many will then add me to their blogroll, so I know they’re doing it!

I’ve probably found 50 sites who did just that over the past month. When I’m posting original (humor) material, this really stinks, since they sometimes get credited as the original author.

Anita

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:02:43 +0000

Oops. I meant to say “The Link Problem”. Mea Culpa.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:52:14 +0000

You’ve got a classic dose of what I call “The Like Problem”.

There is no cure for this ailment. Nothing you can do. Abandon hope all ye who enter etc.

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:27:28 +0000

I would also like to draw peoples attention to the fact that some A-list blogs are actually refusing to carry trackbacks from blogs. We have a podcast and we have a huge array of sources. If we use the info we find on a site as source material for the show we always try to trackback to the original article. Blogs that used to carry these type of trackbacks now have either blocked our URL, have banned our blog, or are checking their trackbacks for this type of link.

Sure we are not *writing* about a story – we are verbally reporting the story or something about it. I still believe that this is an opinion about a subject and a discussion. In this day and age where multi-media is king I would have thought that this was a good thing. But no. Our links don’t show up at all.

You might disagree with me on this but I think that it is narrow minded to think that we would have to “Blog” about it to be considered a valid trackback.

Some blogs are too big for their own good when they think they are better than the rest of us. Very elitist if you ask me. Plus we are giving credit to the source in doing so, if they don’t want it then I won’t bother.

By: Yesternow » To Link Or Not To Link.

Yesternow » To Link Or Not To Link. — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:31:48 +0000

[...] CrunchNotes had a post today about blog linking declining. I’ve been thinking about blog linking a lot since Steve Gillmor brought up the subject on one of the Gillmor Gangs long ago. I tend to side with Gillmor: blog linking is mostly worthless, for a few reasons. [...]

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:55:09 +0000

Sorry, dumb joke – I just couldn’t help myself.