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External Commenting Annoying Referrals

Author: Faf
Date: Friday, September 06, 2002
Date/Time: 06:46 GMT
Permanent URL: http://dotfaf.com/archives/20020906_external_commenting_annoying_referrals.php

So you have a website. You like to know what people are up to on your site, so you track thier movement. You keep a referral log. Maybe it's just cos u wanna know all the naughty things [and mostly stupid things] that people type in yahoo/google searh. Maybe you wanna know who is linking to you and for what reason... maybe u wanna get it cos everyone else has the extreme tracking[1] thing on thier site and u think it's WAY cool.

You a "travelling blogger". You use blogsnob like crazy, commenting on every blog you come accross. Sometimes cos it's fun other times cos you hope they notice you and ...well... maybe just notice you. You cant keep track of the blogs u comment on and u cant wait till google picks up those pages as linking to you. If it's a comments system like mine or this one[2] you're ok if it turns up in ur referrals. You know which site it is so you just trim the URL till u get to the main index.

But not everyone has an internal commenting system. The most popular external one being the YACCS system. Fine... it works... it's great.... it links back to you like this one[3] but then u cant fucking get back to the site. You cant just guess. Thier window title doesnt contain the URL of the site and they're sensible enough to NOT put a link back to thier main site! Arrrrgh!

I know u open it as a popup, but can you freaking just put something in font size 1 saying URL:http://blahblahblah.net or sumthing? anything?

I swear i'm gonna kill the next person that links to me from the comment system with no way of getting back to thier main site. Evil muthas!! I'll get y'all... one at a time. [Drools...]

Comments on this entry:

Author: StormChild
Date/Time: September 6, 2002 3:44 PM
Email: webmistress@tristorm.org
URL: http://tristorm.org

I don't really get what you're on about you Craig David!

Well, I've suddenly realised.. its a point.. I'll b doin that on my commenting system. But then again.. not like YOU do is it?!

Author: Faf
Date/Time: September 6, 2002 4:35 PM

on mine it's obvious when u look at the title bar... it clearly states "dotFAF.com ..." that way u know where the mian index is... so do all of my archive pages

Author: Faf
Date/Time: September 6, 2002 4:36 PM

and in case u havent noticed... mine is not an external commenting system ... blergh!

Author: Faf
Date/Time: September 6, 2002 4:36 PM

and in case u havent noticed... mine is not an external commenting system ... blergh!

Author: StormChild
Date/Time: September 7, 2002 1:14 AM
Email: webmistress@tristorm.org
URL: http://tristorm.org

why do you have to repeat yourself like that? And I can't see where it says dotfaf.com?!

Author: StormChild
Date/Time: September 7, 2002 1:15 AM
Email: webmistress@tristorm.org
URL: http://tristorm.org

Why do you have to repeat yourself like that, and I can't see where it says dotfaf.com?! (TAKE 2!)

Author: StormChild
Date/Time: September 9, 2002 10:42 PM
Email: webmistress@tristorm.org
URL: http://www.babymruc.com/yay/test.php

right

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1) http://www.extremetracking.com
2) http://www.stuartmdavis.com/Blog/comments/comments.php?174
3) http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/commentsn?blog_id=90000001791&blog_entry_id=80746034