UPDATE: Changes Made To The Permanent BackLink Page
Some may feel a bit slighted, but I believe the majority will be OK…or even better. I’ll get straight to the point with explanation to follow. Unfortunately sole Twitter followers (those not subscribed to the blog) will NOT have their Twitter link permanently in place, as originally planned.
This is something I have been thinking about since before I even put up the original post. Among other things, my one worst fear has come to life even quicker then I thought it would…..those attempting to cheat the system by un-following as if I wouldn’t know. Such silly people.
My reasons in full are as follows…
1. Email Subscribers show A LOT more trust and faith in a particular blogger then anyone else, and should be rewarded for it accordingly.
2. Twitter followers come and go a lot easier, thus making it much harder to keep track; especially as followers grow. Qwitter is an awesome service, but who knows if it will work every single time. I still recommend it though.
I had more in my head, but the damn phone has derailed my train of thought. LOL. Those are the two primary reasons anyway. My apologies to some for the 1/2 backflip, but it had to be done.
Note to email subscribers: As you can see on the new backlink page, if you are subscribed AND following me on Twitter, you still get BOTH links…please don’t take advantage, they will be checked periodically to the best of my ability.
Also, if I have accidentally deleted you, let me know.
Thanks to all for understanding,
Dennis
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sherry
January 4th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
So I’m untrustworthy, eh? I guess I’ll opt for email.
By the way, I was just over at Comment Luv, and apparently you are listed as an top blog over there. Congrats!
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January 4th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Hey Shirley, I really really hope you didn’t take it that way.
my apologies if that’s how it came off to everyone (only a few should feel that way lol)
Very cool on CL, I had no idea. Thanks for telling me!
January 4th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Haha. No, there was no offense taken. Perhaps some humor is lost in translation.
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January 4th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Very true, that’s the one thing that I hate with text chat. I do enjoy my sarcastic snarkyness from time to time, but it tends to get me in deep. LOL
If you do sub via email be sure to use the contact page to send me the info asked for on the link page.
January 4th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I think dropping twitter followers makes some sense, to be honest. Although it’s great to encourage people to follow you on twitter, it’s not like a dofollow link is doing to do individuals any good.. those may as well be nofollows.
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January 4th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
(and by dropping twitter followers, I mean dropping the LINK to twitter profiles..)
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January 4th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Nice page, Dennis. I think you did a great job on the links page. You shouldn’t feel bad for doing what you think best. True, some people are going to be quite upset over it, but remember, you can’t make everyone happy no matter how hard you try. Trust me, I’ve tried.
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January 4th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Hmmm I have been an email subscriber since I started reading your blog but don’t see myself on the page. I wasn’t following you on twitter mabye that is the reason. I fixed that problem. Now following you on twitter. =)
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January 4th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Hi Dennis -
I’m back. I just read your email. You mention Qwitter. So I thought I might be able to mention this one. It’s called “Your Twitter Karma” and yeah you sign in with your Twitter ID and user name. Mentioned that so you don’t wonder what their asking for.
Just click on the Whack button in the center of the page to get started. It creates a list of everybody. It give the total count, only following, mutual friends, only followers and you can sort them by last updated, a-z, z-a. You can also just show followers, following etc if you want to zero in on a category like that.
It shows their image, their user name, if you follow them (green) or they follow you (red) and a tic box. A tic box?, you ask. The tick box lets you make specific manual selection to use with the 5 buttons at the bottom of the page. The 5 are - Check All - Uncheck All - Bulk Follow - Bulk Unfollow - Bulk Block.
I found it handy because it is a pain to search through what Twitter gives you. So many pages to go through.
Your Twitter Karma makes it so much easier. I really like having a-z listing to look for a specific user name and see the status. Hope you like this as much as I do. Almost forgot. Here’s the link -
http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/
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January 4th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I think you definately made the right decision here. Focus on building your optin list first!
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January 4th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Hmmm.. Qwitter seems to be worth a look.. Let me check it out..
January 4th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
@ Andrea - Very good point, and I just found out I’ve been wrong all along as to what contextual link are do or no….lots of work to do on this blog.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Qwitter is my first time hear about it
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almir Reply:
April 24th, 2009 at 10:58 am
@Sherry, its really cool that they came up with such a service i heard about this on another blog i was reading. It’s sad instead of using qwitter just don’t use the twitter service than.
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January 4th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
@ Christine - thanks for the awesome support as usual.
@ Gerald - that was just wierd. it wasn’t twitter, I thought I had you in there…I do now!
@ John - thanks for the link man, it looks like some really cool options…except for them having your info. I’ll check it out further.
@ Tom - not my primary focus with this, but you’re right.
@ Melvin & Sherry - definitely a good one if you wanna know who stops following you.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Hhm i have never heard of Qwitter before, will check it out and great timing Dennis as i was just looking for a twitter application that show’s who stopped following you.
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January 4th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Hi Dennis, Thanks for including my on your page. I’ll go over the other links and see if I can make some more mutual friends. Qwitter - catching Twitter quitters. Why can’t I think of something that cool?
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January 4th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Geez Dennis, after you got everyone excited about Qwitter, I hate to point out that it’s been out of service for a few weeks now..
However, there are a few similar services out there. Just yesterday I signed up for socialtoo, which emails you a daily listing of new followers and unfollowers. It also allows you to auto follow anyone who follows you, and optionally send an auto-DM.
The latest and greatest feature is actually the reason I signed up: it also PREVENTS you from receiving those auto-DMs from other socialtoo members.
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January 5th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Damn.. why am I not in the list?!?!?
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January 5th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Dude.. I went for the gold and gave your blogs a review. I hope I did ok.. Do let me know!
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January 5th, 2009 at 10:53 am
@ Salwa - Glad I could help!
@ Brian - Very welcome my friend, thank you for being a subscriber.
@ Andrea - I heard rumors, but I already received emails of qwitters….the reason for this post lol. I’ll check out socialtoo also though, thanks for that.
@ Ben - The email address you gave me didn’t match my feedburner list.
I left a comment on your reviews.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Erm.. ok so judging from your comment, I didn’t do a very good job is it?
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January 5th, 2009 at 11:04 am
@ Ben - the reviews are fine. But there’s a little more to it then that.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
The Page is looking fine
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January 5th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Thanks dude!
January 5th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. I can certainly see why you made this decision and from the comments it looks like most everyone else feels the same way.
Doesn’t it suck that people feel a need to try and game the system like that?
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January 6th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
So true Nick, if there is something to game, someone will try.
January 27th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Dennis, I should have mentioned this earlier - I changed my Twitter id from seowordsmith to twitter.com/selfpubreview because I’ve been devoting A LOT more time to that site. Twitter should make old URLs automatically forward, but until then…
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Dennis Edell Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
@Henry@Self-Publishing Review, Thanks buddy, I’ve been meaning to email you on this.