Comments by Jack Humphrey

This is a really fantastically detailed post! Great job and thanks much for the link!

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Hey thanks! That’s a valuable service pointing out broken links!

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@Jeffrey - go into your settings at FriendFeed and there should be a Twitter control area in your account which sets up Twitter/FriendFeed to talk to each other. It’s not adding Twitter to FreindFeed - there should be a control that asks you if you want to feed FriendFeed activity TO Twitter. That’s what you’re after.

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@Andy - yeah, a boy. He’s 3 and has his talking moments, but thankfully nothing like this. Although it’s cute as heck for 30 seconds, not sure it would remain so funny after 30 days!

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Thanks Gary!

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@Andy - Yeah, I used to take credit for “discovering” Maria, but I cant take credit for how much of a powerhouse she’s become. She’s definitely one to follow. I will recommend her until she starts killing me in the engines and then its on!

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Not that I know of. The most advanced article directory out there is EzineArticles.com and if he doesn’t have one (not 100% sure) probably no one else does. Would be good to hear from anyone who knows for sure on this - let us know!

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@Neceros - My blog and many others now pick up links to posts as trackbacks automatically. So if you link to something here on your blog, I will get notified in my comment moderation that a trackback was made and from where. I then approve it just like a comment.

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Stephen - if that’s truly been your worst experience with blogging, you should be very happy! The key is to not read things you don’t want to read, which is completely up to you. I’m not forcing anyone to read tweetbacks. And in our business, if you aren’t using Twitter, well, I guess I don’t even know what to say about that.

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@George - At the very least you should be very conflicted. That’s like dogs and cats playing with each other!

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@elmot - Good point!

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@Adam - I never believed the no follow thing would effectively render the linked site “invisible” to Google. It is just a way to say “I don’t vouch for this site personally” but doesn’t, of course, mean that Google won’t follow the links and decide how it wants to deal with the link and resulting site on its own. Clearly, Google does use and react to no follow links.

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@Gary - thanks man! Sounds like a nice day!

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@Cassie - you must have a good keyboard!

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@David- If you link to a blog post on another blog, given that it is an up-to-date blog, the owner gets a note that someone has commented. Just as if you’ve commented directly on their blog. When they log in to moderate, they see it was a trackback, that you’ve talked about them on your site. They come check out what you wrote, and if they like it, they approve your trackback as a comment on their post.

Instead of “David Bruce Jr. showing up as tthe link back to your site, it will use the title of the post you linked from. So if your title is Web Promotion Strategies, the link back to your site from their comment area will be Web Promotion Strategies and then a snippet from the post.

The reason trackbacks are powerful is you get keyword anchor text that is more valuable than your name, which is how you signed your comment here.

Direct commenting: Your name is the link back to your site.
Trackback linking: The title of the post in which you linked to the blogger’s post is the link back to you, and it links directly to the post where you linked out.

Does this work for all blogs you link to? No. Depends on how good a blog you’re linking to. If the owner isn’t using the latest blog software, like Wordpress 2.7-2.8, they aren’t getting notified of trackbacks. But they probably aren’t good bloggers anyway, therefore the link wouldn’t mean much in the first place.

Do all trackbacks get approved by the blogger you link to? No. Bloggers are all different. The general rule is that you reward people who link to you as long as they are saying positive thhings about you, and you approve the trackback/comment. Some bloggers are really weird and don’t do this. Again, they probably are of no account if they don’t know the etiquette, so you aren’t losing anything if you link to them and they don’t approve the trackback. They’re just butt heads and you move on.

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