If you’re a wordpress user you probably know the incoming links section of your admin page. It helps you find out who’s linking to you. However every so often you may see some old posts from your blog, or someone else’s blog pop up, I’ve often wonder what causes it. After spending few days watching it I think I figured it out.
Here’s a shot of the dashboard for those of you not on wordpress
For example why did Bill Slawski’s posts from 2005 get triggered, why did my now invalid post about images next to Google adsense get triggered. What was it that made Technorati suddenly think those posts/links were new/linked?
From what I can see it’s caused by the related posts plugin from wordpress. Basically the plugin tries to match each post up with other posts that are similar. Some cases it goes back quite a ways in the archives. When Technorati comes along it pick up links to the posts in the related posts section, and if your website is in one of those posts, it will show up in the section above.
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So, is there any way to ‘manipulate’ or ‘help’ this plugin do something that would help identify any additional links?
Interesting theory but I have another one..
1. Back in time Technorati indexed “2005 July – SEO by the SEA”.
2. Then Bill Slawski added your site to his blogroll.
3. Technorati updates “2005 July – SEO by the SEA” and puts all “non-nofollod’ed” links on the page in their “link index”.
Now because Technorati show links either in the order of date/time a link was discovered – or in the regular data order they have in the index – it will appear as a new link because it is new but just in their index..
You see Technorati seem to assign date and time to data for when they discover it rather than the actual date it was published.
On of the things I like most about my word press blog is seeing all the strange ways people have stumbled across my blog. I have basically no idea about ‘SEO’ and things like that, so a lot of my traffic seems to be fairly random. I love seeing an older post pop up somewhere else.
Interesting, I had noticed the effect but I was not sure about the cause. Thanks for the clarification.
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