See Who Is Linking To Your pPosts - Try TalkDigger
Kevin Burton alerted me to another linking/citation service from PubSub which I didn’t realise was available. The PubSub service is quite cool and is well laid out - here’s PubSub’s profile for Connected Internet.However, it was frustrating yet again to see that PubSub have picked up sites other linking tools like Technorati and IceRocket have missed. It’s a shame that there isn’t one service that catches everything.
I guess the service that provides the best compromise is TalkDigger which presents the results from several linking services on one page.
Looking at my results the spread in numbers is quite interesting. Without checking the accuracy of each engine, it looks like PubSub are doing the best job of tracking links:
- Technorati 75
- Bloglines 123
- Blogpulse 35
- IceRocket 0 (This is a mistake as I know IceRocket have links to this site)
- PubSub 253
- Feedster 201
- Blogdigger 0
- MSN309
- Google 25
I’ve now changed my blog template so that the ‘linking posts’ link on articles points to TalkDigger rather than IceRocket. If you are a Blogware user this is easy to do - just add:
<a
xhref=”http://www.talkdigger.com/index.php?surl={permalink_url}” mce_href=”http://www.talkdigger.com/index.php?surl={permalink_url}” title=”Check
who’s linking to {{title}} via Talk Digger”>Linking
Posts</a>
to your article and category templates.
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Comment by Anonymous on 21 August 2005:
I understand that it can be frustrating to see that PubSub delivers more results than the other services. We here this constantly. As odd as it may sound, it frustrates me as well. I've been working very hard for quite some time to get all the feed/blog search and monitoring services to agree to share information about the new data they discover so that we could, in fact, ensure that all services are processing the same data. You should be able to go to Technorati, Feedster, PubSub and IceRocket and see exactly the same data in each service. Your choice between services should be based on what they do for you — not how much data they have.
The mechanism we have been pushing is called the FeedMesh. Currently, Yahoo's blo.gs and PubSub.com openly and freely publish notifications of all the feed updates that we discover. Thus, there is absolutely no excuse for any service to not have at least as much data as we do at PubSub.com. The only thing you should expect is that those “selfish” services that read from the FeedMesh but don't share their own data might be processing *more* data than we do. But, that is not the case.
Personally, I think it is very much in the interests of blog/feed publishers and readers to do what they can to ensure that systems like the FeedMesh are successful. It is only through such sharing systems that we'll be able to even get close to a world in which all the services are processing the same data and they start competing based on the quality of the service they provide rather than they data that they have. Publishers and readers should be insisting that the services they use both read from and contribute to the FeedMesh… One easy way to put pressure on the folk that aren't cooperating is to simply stop pinging them directly. I believe that blog publishers should simply refuse to ping any site other than Ping-O-Matic (which feeds into the FeedMesh) or a site like Yahoo's blo.gs or PubSub that are active FeedMesh publishers. The more services we get sharing data via the FeedMesh, the more likely we are to stop the frustration of having to check multiple services to see all the posts that we're interested in.
bob wyman
CTO, PubSub.com