Lucia’s Linky Love for WP 2.3:
Option to follow trackback immediately.

I’ve updated Lucia’s Linky Love for WP 2.3. Sort of. It turned out the plugin already worked for WP 2.3. However, I did make a two mods at user request:

1. Josh Spaulding requested the ability to dofollow trackbacks immediately. That function now exists.
2. Tricia identified a bug that appeared to sometimes occur when people left “names” with apostrophe (that is “‘”) in them. I think I coded corrected.

If you’d like the new version, download Lucia’s Linky Love for WP 2.3. Unzip. Place in plugin folder. Deactivate the old version, activate this one.

If you notice any problems, let me know so I can fix.

A word or caution
Trackback spam can be particularly pesky. I have seen a rash of semi-innocent looking scraper blogs that post snippets of your content. I call these Daegan Spam. If you keep those trackbacks and visit later, you will notice the blogs get redirected to irrelevant thin-affiliate sites for commercial products. This causes you to link into a “bad neighborhood”, which is a bad thing.

I’m planning a tool to help us find these things months later, “just in case”, but haven’t thought through the best way to do it yet.

Meanwhile, be very vigilant about trackback spam. When in doubt delete.

In the “irony” department

I found a bug in “Hide Sponsored Categories Plugins” for 2.3. It only happens for categories that have apostrophe’s in their name. I have such a category. It’s the one for “Lucia’s Linky Love!” So, I’m currently running the old version. Needless to say, I’ll be fixing that bug!
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Dofollow is a great way to get GREAT comments:
Vapid videos attract smegma.

Recently, Shoemoney blogger Pamcakes recorded a video in which she says the dofollow movement a “became a blogroll circle jerk” of brandnew or low quality blogs “dragging on for months”, announced that Greg Bozer is setting up a dofollow list for ‘quality’ blogs, and then tells us she’s “looking forward to the follow on blogposts where people tell us how much more time people have spent moderating after removing nofollow from their comments”.

What is Pam’s evidence that the dofollow movement is a blogroll circle jerk? Or that the dofollow blogs will have trouble with spam? Eyerolls.

Still many bloggers read Shoemoney; many might ask: Are dofollow blogs poor quality? Brandnew? Full of spammy comments?

If so, why is the dofollow movement gaining popularity? And, more importantly, why do I run across so many good dofollow blogs?!

Obviously, just as there are poor “dofollow” blogs; there are also loads of poor “nofollow” blogs. There are brand new dofollow blogs; there are tons of brand new “nofollow” blogs. What of it?

But the insinuation that dofollow disproportionately attracts spam is just flat out, wrong.

The reality is Dofollow often raises the level of comments.

How does dofollow raise the level of comments?

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Who Else Wants Links?

I want links, you want links, everybody wants links! Now, there is a new way to give each other even more links: Use coComment!

What is coComment?

CoComment is a comment tracking service. You can install their toolbar; afterwards when you leave a comment on a blog, that comment thread will be logged on your coComment account.

The main function of this service is to permit you to keep track of conversations on blogs. It’s pretty handy for that– I sometimes forget where I left a comment. Later, I want to go back and read any reaction. But. . . I forgot where the conversation took place!

How does coComment create Links?

When you leave a comment at a blog, a link to that blog is created on your profile page; here’s some chick called lucia lliljegren’s profile page. (Oh, you can also evidently follow conversations without leaving a comment. That creates a link as well, and it’s pretty handy!)

Anyone can click those links to find blogs where I posted comments. Eventually, if your friends join,they can click your links to follow conversations you found. Plus, people can search on tags to find conversations about topics of interest. You can also create groups (I created knitting. I may need to invite people!)

So, clearly, coComment creates links to the blogs you comment on.

What kind of links does it create?

Pretty good ones! Matt Jones at blogging fingers noticed Technorati counts them toward rank! He also says these links are on PR 4 pages, but I don’t see that rank on my toolbar.

Can I avoid giving links to people I disapprove of?

Yes. You will be can blacklist site and prevent those comment threads from appearing on your coComment account. With the toolbar, you’ll see a link to “blacklist”. Click that, make some choices and save.

So, how can I get myself links?

That’s obvious: get your commenters to join coComment! Then they can leave comments to your blog.

What should I do now?

Go sign up for coComment. They have very nice step by step features that will tell you how to install the co-comment toolbar. Install it.

Then, skip their instructions to test at their blog. Come back here and leave a comment at my blog and tell me you joined. (Then I can dash off and make you a friend, which seems to have some benefits for both of us.)

Oh, and remember, my comments are dofollow. So once you’ve left at least three comments, your links get followed. Plus now, by using coComment, you return the favor and I get a link.

Afterwards, return to coComment, and check your account. You’ll see a link to this conversation at co-comment, you can follow the full comment thread over there. Of course, if someone responds to your comment, and you want to respond to them, you still need to return here to comment. That would be more traffic for me.

But I bet you’re still wondering how you can get links for your blog? Well, you leave comments at your own blogs, right? You’ll only get one link per post, and your coComment profile can only give 1 vote to your blog profile, but still, a link’s a link. Then, also get your friends to join– and comment at your blog. And, heck, why not become dofollow and publicize that?

If you are a Wordpress blog, it’s easy to dofollow. Just get Lucia’s Linky Love, install. It works out of the box, but you can also make some choices that help you discourage human comment spammers.

Afterwards, publicize your do-follow status by joining Tricia’s dofollow list and Bumpzee’s dofollow group.

Let me asure you, you’ll get comments! And the dofollowers are a savvy group. So, you’ll probably like a lot of their comments.

Summary of coComment

I think the service will be handy because I know I lose track of conversations I want to follow. Sometimes I can’t remember the blog I visited and just drop out for that reason. Plus, sometimes, I’d like my friends to be able to find some blogs where I left comments. The extra links are a bonus. Tags:blogging cocomment commenting dofollow pagerank seo

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