Andy Beard needs a nap. The guy is seriously cranky -- and ready to take on all blog writers who misuse links and screw up Web protocol. Andy writes a solid blog about niche marketing, covering search engines, affiliate ads, social media and the like. I've been getting his email for a few weeks and recommend it.
Here's a good point from his lengthy post about bad links:
I frequently see things like "Andy Beard wrote a great post on XYZ" and the link would be with my name to the home page. That link might be useful for a couple of days, but then the blog post will be buried in my archives. Permalinks on blogs are there for a reason… use them!
2 comments:
It looks like you didn't need the lesson, but a huge amount of people do ;)
What you now need to do is find a way to issue trackbacks to get some nice links :)
Haloscan offer a trackback service, though I wouldn't use their comment system, and lots of desktop blogging applications also can issue a trackback.
Thanks, Andy, glad I passed the acid test on links.
I set up the Haloscan, but haven't had much luck dumping their comments setup, which comes along with the trackbacks. A lot of conflicting into (and code) on this topic, probably part of it due to the Blogger switchover and the beta.
So I retreated, for now, to the old template but am still on the case.
Appreciate the motivation. Glenn
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