Before I go out there...
I need to know about pinging and all it's attendant trappings. I keep asking about this, then posting 40 yard-long posts and burying the questions. This time, it'll be on top for a while, while I'm milking, so here goes:
I know how to do links, finally (Yay, me...). But, when it comes to the people I've linked knowing I've linked them, I'm clueless. I think I know the Munuvian blogs are pinged automatically. (I hope that's right...if not, then I know NOTHING.) Anyway, how do I 'ping' other blogs? What is a 'ping', anyway? Can I set it up so that linked blogs get pinged automatically somehow? Do I just tell the writers of said blogs, or wha'?And...what are 'trackbacks' and how do they work? I'm not doing the links for any particular reason, except I like the person or they've got something really cool I think you might wanna see, so I never really found out much about it, except how to do it. Now, I'm coming to understand about 'rankings' and how links help them and all that stuff, so I guess I'd better find out about the rest of it. I tried linking to BlogoSFERICS one time and Kevin wrote me back an email about something to do with a 'trackback URL', something-or-another and I got instant pin-prick hemorrhages (sp?) in my brain and knew I needed HELP. So...any help you can give me here would be greatly appreciated. Be as remedial as you can. There is no way to 'dumb-it-down' too much. I mean, I can get the computer to turn on, I can type and I can do links. That's about the sum-total of my computer 'skilz'. So, if this stuff is in the least bit complicated, please never let the vision of blonde hair and large-ish boobs leave your mind. Yes, cling tightly to the 'airhead' image. Thank you. (My favorite Sargeant ever to dispatch for used to call me Sarah, after the blonde daughter on that show....Ted Knight was the Dad and drew the 'Cosmic Cow' cartoon, Debra Van Valkenburg was the 'smart' daughter and Jm. J. Bullock played that stooge...can't remember his character's name or the name of the show...damn, and I know it, too. Anyway...Sarah, the busty, blonde airhead...that's me.)
(One other thing...my comments are emailed to me automatically, but if you'd rather email this stuff directly...it's 'srv200163 at Yahoo dot com'...)
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To my knowledge, no blog/site is pinged automatically when you post without you directing it to. You have to set up where you ping in your MT preferences. For instance, weblogs and blo.gs.
So the trackback/ping thing. If you enable this in your preferences, if you would happen to link to a specific entry at go fish, MT would automatically pull out the trackback URL and ping my entry. So in the way that you see X amount of people left comments, you'd also see that someone had pinged my entry. That's trackback.
You can also manually ping a specific entry. At the bottom of your MT entry screen, there should be a fill in box where you can enter trackback URLs...like if you got the idea for an entry of your own from an entry of mine, but didn't mention a specific entry at go fish but still wanted to ping that entry.
Simply linking a blog will not cause it to ping [usually]. You usually have to link to a specific entry.
Does that make sense?
So the trackback/ping thing. If you enable this in your preferences, if you would happen to link to a specific entry at go fish, MT would automatically pull out the trackback URL and ping my entry. So in the way that you see X amount of people left comments, you'd also see that someone had pinged my entry. That's trackback.
You can also manually ping a specific entry. At the bottom of your MT entry screen, there should be a fill in box where you can enter trackback URLs...like if you got the idea for an entry of your own from an entry of mine, but didn't mention a specific entry at go fish but still wanted to ping that entry.
Simply linking a blog will not cause it to ping [usually]. You usually have to link to a specific entry.
Does that make sense?
Posted by: Mac at October 21, 2003 04:31 PM (4sb5H)
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Jeopardy answer is: What is TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT, Alex. I'll take inane sitcoms for $400.
I'll have a go at the trackback thing by email.
I'll have a go at the trackback thing by email.
Posted by: Light & Dark at October 21, 2003 10:59 PM (Hrm9v)
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Mac-it will make sense. I don't care how many times I have to read it. Thank you.
Paul-THANK YOU for the name of that dumb show.
Now I remember that dopey guys name-Monroe.
Whew.
Okay...back to this pingin' stuff...
Paul-THANK YOU for the name of that dumb show.
Now I remember that dopey guys name-Monroe.
Whew.
Okay...back to this pingin' stuff...
Posted by: Stevie at October 22, 2003 01:15 AM (QvOMA)
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Yup. You need to go into your blog configuration page in Movable Type and configure so you can send and receive pings. Email me and we can walk through it.
How to I know? I tried to ping ya -- or send a "message" that I linked to your site and I got this:
Ping 'http://caughtinthexfire.mu.nu/archives/004755.html' failed: HTTP error: 405 Method Not Allowed
That means you don't have it configured to allow the ping.
Let me know if I can help.
How to I know? I tried to ping ya -- or send a "message" that I linked to your site and I got this:
Ping 'http://caughtinthexfire.mu.nu/archives/004755.html' failed: HTTP error: 405 Method Not Allowed
That means you don't have it configured to allow the ping.
Let me know if I can help.
Posted by: margi at October 22, 2003 02:58 AM (4jrV0)
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Okay...ummm. Let me look around in there and see what I might be able to figure out. What I'm wondering as I do is: Do I, maybe, just list individual blogs to ping and if I do and I add all the blogs on the 'roll, does it ping all of them every time I link to any of them, or does it just ping the ones linked to?
I'll be back...
I'll be back...
Posted by: Stevie at October 22, 2003 03:05 AM (QvOMA)
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Well, isn't Stevie little Miss Smartypants. Got the trackback thing happening already! Good job gorgeous! Now lets see ya write a quick post and put a trackback in it to the post I wrote about you!
As far as the ping stuff, sounds like margi'll be a great coach for that, especially since she's actually on MT. (TypePad is MT based, but doesn't provide all the hands-on capability)
Good on ya, girl.
As far as the ping stuff, sounds like margi'll be a great coach for that, especially since she's actually on MT. (TypePad is MT based, but doesn't provide all the hands-on capability)
Good on ya, girl.
Posted by: Light & Dark at October 22, 2003 03:35 AM (Hrm9v)
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Oh, crap...uhhh...give me a second here. (Muttering to self..."Okay, I need to post and trackback to his post with the trackback...how do I do that again?...hmmm...Aspirin are where?.... Okay, let's try it...Man, I wonder if I even want to know anymore how you do that word crossing out thing where you can still see what it says, thereby by getting the politically incorrect thing said, but seeming to correct it"...lol, shaking head)
Posted by: Stevie at October 22, 2003 03:52 AM (QvOMA)
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Came here from Margi Lowry.
I don't blog myself, but others have noted the usefulness (and understandability
) of:
*new page design to copy every refresh*
*Make your own referral log - free* --- found at
http://thecoloradocompound.blogspot.com/
http://www.textism.com/tools/refer/ another ...
*A Beginner's Guide to Blogging with MovableType*
* Al-Muhajabah's Movable Type Tips*
*generate format - with CSS included*
if you’re looking for a commenting system why not trying the brand new Israeli backBlog.
http://www.blogextra.com/backblog/default.asp
*??? add RSS tags to your posts*
* FREE web site stats with a fun and cool new look!*
*free website templates* and links to more
random changes on page - http://nslog.com/archives/2003/04/17/random_quotes.php
http://www.movabletype.org/support/?act=ST&f=14&t=4446&hl=random+mysql
Talk to the women at Right We Are!
*Tabbed IE! front-end allows 6 tabbed windows using IE browser - and can have multiple MyIE open if need more* see plugin Trackback v.0.9 (grossfinch) 17KB - Trackback is very popular in blog and many news source websites. This is a plugin for those who use MT but cannot take the ping function. ***** I use ver 1 of MyIE and like it a lot. Does NOT use REGISTRY - actually, you can put it on a floppy or cd and run it from there... *****
* includes many web and blog related sites - check "newest"*
*International Standard Serial Number for your Weblog*
*Buy nonstandard eg dot-tv domain name*
*Moveable Type Backups - oops* If you use standard MT backups to go to a new server, archive names will change and links messed up. Suggests using a full MySQL backup, has one for Unix servers.
I don't blog myself, but others have noted the usefulness (and understandability
) of:
*new page design to copy every refresh*
*Make your own referral log - free* --- found at
http://thecoloradocompound.blogspot.com/
http://www.textism.com/tools/refer/ another ...
*A Beginner's Guide to Blogging with MovableType*
* Al-Muhajabah's Movable Type Tips*
*generate format - with CSS included*
if you’re looking for a commenting system why not trying the brand new Israeli backBlog.
http://www.blogextra.com/backblog/default.asp
*??? add RSS tags to your posts*
* FREE web site stats with a fun and cool new look!*
*free website templates* and links to more
random changes on page - http://nslog.com/archives/2003/04/17/random_quotes.php
http://www.movabletype.org/support/?act=ST&f=14&t=4446&hl=random+mysql
Talk to the women at Right We Are!
*Tabbed IE! front-end allows 6 tabbed windows using IE browser - and can have multiple MyIE open if need more* see plugin Trackback v.0.9 (grossfinch) 17KB - Trackback is very popular in blog and many news source websites. This is a plugin for those who use MT but cannot take the ping function. ***** I use ver 1 of MyIE and like it a lot. Does NOT use REGISTRY - actually, you can put it on a floppy or cd and run it from there... *****
* includes many web and blog related sites - check "newest"*
*International Standard Serial Number for your Weblog*
*Buy nonstandard eg dot-tv domain name*
*Moveable Type Backups - oops* If you use standard MT backups to go to a new server, archive names will change and links messed up. Suggests using a full MySQL backup, has one for Unix servers.
Posted by: John Anderson, RI USA at October 22, 2003 11:37 AM (EXu7T)
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