OK, So I’m an Idiot. I Don’t Get Typepad Trackbacks

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1. Greg Swann

   October 31st, 2006 at 7:07 am

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   You’re doing it right. What you can’t control is how the linked weblog handles trackbacks/pingbacks. They may be moderated or turned off altogether. For my own part, I’ve stopped bothering with it.

2. John Schneider

   October 31st, 2006 at 9:06 am

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   Jay, I’m going to take another crack at typepad trackbacks -yep my blog is on typepad - though when I’ve gone there in the past I found lots of reasons to put it off ’til manana.

3. Jon Ernest

   October 31st, 2006 at 10:03 am

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   Jay,

   You’re not alone. It took me about 3 months to figure out why, when I clicked on my RSS link, the page kept comming up “page not found” I would keep bugging my business partner (our IT guy) asking him to fix it, and he kept replying “some things just can’t be fixed” with a grin.

   I still hate him

4. Jim Cronin

   October 31st, 2006 at 11:39 am

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   TP trackbacking is not streamlined. It is for sure one of their weaknesses.
   I know, I am a TypePad user… some days I wish I was not.

5. Pat Kitano

   October 31st, 2006 at 12:50 pm

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   Hi Jay, I’m also a mystified dufus when it comes to trackbacks… I was so surprised that my posts show up automatically on Wordpress blogs that I, duuh, commented about it (like a dufus) in one of Greg Swann’s posts saying, like “hey, how did you do that?”…

   Anyway, I didn’t think trackbacks were being used any more because Inever received one… until last night! Thanks Jay… now I’ll figure out what it does next.

6. Todd Tarson

   October 31st, 2006 at 4:52 pm

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   I remember when I was decided to launch my blog that I ran across a how to article on some non RE related blog. It said trackbacking is a great way to gain readership among other blogs and IT WAS VERY EASY TO DO.

   Well, I started my blog all right… but that trackback stuff being easy… umm… not so much.

7. Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

   October 31st, 2006 at 8:56 pm

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   Thanks guys. Glad to hear it’s not just me!

8. Maureen Francis

   November 1st, 2006 at 5:44 pm

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   Ironically enough, I tried to do trackbacks with GrowABrain (typepad) and the Tomato (typepad) this week. I got errors on both of them. I thought it was me too.

   And a question for you, Jay. Why aren’t you pointing buygilberthomes somewhere (like here)?

9. Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

   November 1st, 2006 at 6:53 pm

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   Great question Mo! I did have buygilberthomes pointing here…. not sure when it stopped. Hmmmmm…………

   I’m on hold with GoDaddy support as I type…. (…..note to self, in the future, push # when asked if you want to hold without music….)

   Well, turns out it’s my fault. I had a bunch of “credits” at godaddy for free hosting. Always hoping to get something for nothing, I slapped a free credit on BGH.com. That turned off the forwarding to PREG.com.

   So we turned off the BGH hosting, reset the nameservers, and in 24 - 48 hours after it “propogates”, BGH will return to pointing to PREG.com.

   THANKS for catching this!!

   And a plug here for GoDaddy… I love these guys. Some “pros” say they are a lousy host. They’ve been great to me. Their customer support is top notch. And they’ve got great commercials…

10. Kristal Kraft

    November 3rd, 2006 at 5:56 pm

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    OK so even after reading all this I am still in the dark. Like the IT guy who said, “some things can’t be fixed” guess that’s my brain…

11. Tommie W. Gibson

    November 4th, 2006 at 8:25 am

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    I read the title to your post and thought to myself “great I’m finally going to get this figured out”….. instead I notice that I’m not the only one mistified with trackbacks. The comments read like an AA meeting so I’ll just stand and introduce myself, hopefully someone like Mary McKnight will be by soon and throw us a rope.

    Hi my name is Tommie, and I have a problem with trackbacks.

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    November 4th, 2006 at 11:29 am

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13. Teresa Boardman

    November 13th, 2006 at 2:23 pm

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    You make me smile. I thought I was the only idot that didn’t get it. I even read the online hlep which means I was reaaly desperate. Then i moved onto bigger and better things like trying to decide what to write each day. A lot of work for me!

14. Glad I’m on WordPress… at The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

    January 13th, 2007 at 12:00 am

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