The Write Transition: Pingbacks and Twitter Mentions, Are You Up to Snuff?

January 5, 2016 Patrick Jones 7 Comments

Great Information at http://carrierubin.com/2016/01/04/pingbacks-and-twitter-mentions-are-you-up-to-snuff/ Featured by Chris The Story Reading Ape at http://thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2016/01/05/pingbacks-and-twitter-mentions-are-you-up-to-snuff/

Carrie Rubin

Like a toddler teaching astrophysics, I’m probably the last person to give tech advice.

But I won’t let that stop me.

For any bloggers not yet savvy about pingbacks and Twitter mentions, here are two tips I’d like to share that will make things easier for your followers:

My mom's cat, Diva. She loves...er...tolerates me. My mom’s cat. She loves…er…tolerates me.

1. Pingbacks

It’s an honor to be mentioned in someone else’s blog post, and it’s a great way to build blogging connections. But unless our blog gets a notification, we won’t be aware we were mentioned unless we stumble upon the post. And since most of us can’t read every post of every blogger we follow, we risk not seeing the mention at all.

The good news is, we can help our fellow bloggers by activating a pingback whenever we mention them in our posts. Pingbacks are an automated way to alert other bloggers we have…

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7 thoughts on “The Write Transition: Pingbacks and Twitter Mentions, Are You Up to Snuff?”

GP Cox says:

March 23, 2016 at 4:52 am

Haven’t heard from you in so long, hope all is well with you.

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1. Patrick Jones says:
  
  April 26, 2016 at 4:22 am
  
  Hi GP! All is well here. Finished up Book 2 and Book 3 sequels to The Wolf’s Moon. Back in the saddle! Thanks so much for caring 🙂
  
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teagan geneviene says:

February 13, 2016 at 3:14 pm

Thanks for sharing, Patrick. Mega weekend hugs!

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1. Patrick Jones says:
  
  April 26, 2016 at 4:23 am
  
  Hi Teagan! Back in the saddle here after a brief hiatus! Finished Book 2 and Book 3 of the sequel to The Wolf’s Moon. Hope you’re doing great!
  
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Carrie Rubin says:

January 5, 2016 at 2:54 pm

Thank you for the reblog! Much appreciated.

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1. Patrick Jones says:
  
  January 5, 2016 at 4:31 pm
  
  Most welcome! It was great information! Had to share 🙂 Happy New Year and thanks for visiting!! 🙂
  
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  1. Carrie Rubin says:
    
    January 5, 2016 at 5:04 pm
    
    Happy New Year to you too!
    
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