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Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the list of "Links to this post", which are not really links at all? Some days there are 8 or 10 links supposedly from "Of Course, I Could Be Wrong", and when I click the link and go to the post, there is no link to my post in any of the posts at OCICBW. Each time MadPriest puts up a post, I get the link appended to one of my posts, to which there is no link.
I can delete the links, but it's tedious to do 8 or 10 a day, and I never know when they will turn up or to which posts they will be attached. When I turn on the "Hide" function for "Backlinks" in the settings, they do not appear, but then I screen out all legitimate links from other blogs.
Am I making sense?
I have about 40 of these too --and when a day's reflection has been linked to, it doesn't show.... !!!! I will carefully monitor this post!! Thanks Grandmere.
ReplyDeletemargaret, are yours from "Of Course, I Could Be Wrong" or from other blogs, too?
ReplyDeleteMimi, I think it has to do with the auto-link creation from certain blog-sampler sidebar scripts. I get these links from OCICBW and a couple of others (Bp Alan... maybe it's something in the English air?) Blogger has had different generations of scripts to add a running blog-sampler to a sidebar, and I think one of those scripts is responsible...
ReplyDeleteTobias, thanks. I considered that the links might be from blog feeds on the sidebar. I don't get the links from Bishop Alan, although I'm on his sidebar feed. I exchanged emails with MadPriest, and he has no idea why this is happening. My problem started only a couple of weeks ago. I suppose there's no help for it but to hide the Backlinks function altogether.
ReplyDeleteI had noticed them on at least other post of yours and had observed, on following the links, that they had nothing whatever to do with the subject of the post to which they were linked. Good luck sorting it out.
ReplyDeleteFor now, I've disabled all backlinks, which solves the problem but excludes all links.
ReplyDeleteMine are from lots of blogs.... including blogs I do not link to, and blogs that do not link to me but have lifted a line or two or three....
ReplyDeleteI guess I should consider myself fortunate, that my links are from only one blog.
ReplyDelete...have lifted a line or two or three....
I know what you mean. ;-)
I get lots of these too. Like Tobias, mainly from OCICBW and Bp Alan. So, what does "backlinks" mean, anyway? What exactly are you eliminating when you do that?
ReplyDeleteCan you tell I'm a techno-dinosaur?
Elizabeth, what you eliminate when you hide backlinks is the notation below the comments box when another blogger actually, really, truly links to your post.
ReplyDeleteI used to have these on Wordpress. They used to appear and then disappear by the next day. They were always from blogs on my sidebar, so I'm just surprised that you don't more than MP. Never figured out the reason, and I used to ignore them, although sometimes I think they appeared to link to posts I had commented on. The real links would persist.
ReplyDeletekishnevi, I removed my blogroll, because it was so long as to be useless, and I didn't keep up with removing bloggers who had not written for a long time. My best guess now is that the link notations are from the script on MP's blog.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mimi. Getting rid of that now.
ReplyDeleteI thought that the "links" were when a another blogger makes reference to your post and links to it in THEIR post on their blog. In other words, if Madpriest liked what you posted and did a post in his blog that referred people over to your post-that is the link you are seeing listed. I think.
ReplyDeleteRenz, I thought the same, but when I saw a list of 8 posts from MP, I knew he had not linked to my blog that many times in one day. He doesn't like what I post THAT much.
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