Comments on: Trackbacking w/o a Link = bad. http://getluky.net/2004/12/08/trackbacking-wo-a-link-bad/ Bred for skill in magic. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:54:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: nick http://getluky.net/2004/12/08/trackbacking-wo-a-link-bad/#comment-25 nick Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=135#comment-25 <p>Call me naive, but I had always thought of trackbacks as a way of letting a person know "I'm interested in what you have written, and have posted some commentary or related thoughts on it". A kind of meta "is-related-to" link. I guess there is a totally unrelated "selfish" use to them as well, now that you mention it. </p> <p>But are you sure he really did it just for the google-juice and ad revenue? Or was his post related to yours and just lacking a direct link to your blog?</p> Call me naive, but I had always thought of trackbacks as a way of letting a person know “I’m interested in what you have written, and have posted some commentary or related thoughts on it”. A kind of meta “is-related-to” link. I guess there is a totally unrelated “selfish” use to them as well, now that you mention it.

But are you sure he really did it just for the google-juice and ad revenue? Or was his post related to yours and just lacking a direct link to your blog?

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