So, how does a trackback work?

[Bill]

Okay, I'm looking for a couple of blogs that will volunteer to participate in a series of tests on comments.

It seems to me that commenting should produce a oneway link - except that it's a oneway link back to the commenter.

It's a "taking" oneway link.

Which is kinda the opposite of the original idea that I was playing with of, which was to place permalinks in blog posts _to_ each other - "giving" a one way link.

But I want to test it, so I need a couple of people to volunteer their blogs.

Here's the blogs I was gonna test this with:

http://www.analsextips.net/

and

http://www.4pornxxx.com/

which means I need blogs devoted to anal and webcam/lesbian/teen.

I leave a comment on your blogs, and you leave a comment on mine, and we look at the comments and see how the linking works out.

Any volunteers? Anybody else have different niches they want to try this on?

[Halfdeck]

I recommend for now only leaving comments on pages like

analsextips.net/a-beautiful-pleasure-pain-anal-face.html

comments on pages like

analsextips.net/some-more-free-anal-pages-and-gallerys.html

will not pass much value. The cache won't be refreshed for months either so your comment will take forever to show up.

and when approving comments, allow live links not only in nicknames but within the comment itself - that way people can embed links inside a paragraph of text.

Too many interlinking between a handful of blogs can expose the entire network. If the "club" is small its no better than crosslinking with yourself.

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

[Bill]

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

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.