Blogger’s Responsibility

Looking at my analytics, I’ve discovered the significance of something that I’d not really given any thought to before: trackbacks.

In short - if you link to another site, this may become known to the site you’re linking to. Your blog post might then appear in the comments of a post that you’ve referred to. I’ve recently had visitors both from Vitamin and Circa1977.

This is potentially a good way to drive traffic to your site, but it cuts both ways and requires a certain degree of responsibility. This is my little corner, and I’ll speak my mind as I see fit, but as a blogger if you’re going to say something controversial you’d better have a decent rationale for it or you’ll just make a public jackass of yourself and get flamed to buggery.

Note to self.

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