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Originally Posted by Halfdeck
Lastly, how do you plan to keep track of comments? If I spam your blog with "relevant" comments and you only leave one comment on my blog, then its not a fair trade
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That's part of the reason that using comments as the vector for linking didn't occur or appeal to me at first - I'm used to "giving" links, which pretty much has to be done by hand, is fairly easy to check, and it's part of the older linking culture.
Leaving comments open has a few problems - for example, will "legitimate" partner comments get lost in akismet? Will people we don't want to link to, enter comments that we end up accepting?
Right now I just want to mess with it a bit and see how it works.
I figure the comment emails one gets will let us track it enough, for now at least. Like you said, we don't want to go wild with it.
I still mostly want to explore the idea of putting permalinks to other people's more unique blog posts in posts, to make oneway interior-to-interior page links.
I figure some trackbacking would be fine, but you were right, trackbacking isn't a method that would help much.