Free Backlinks to All Beyond the Rhetoric Readers
August 25th, 2007 by Michael KwanWith a little advice from Nate Whitehill, the same guy that completely redesigned John Chow dot Com, I’ve decided to give free backlinks to anyone who enjoys reading Beyond the Rhetoric. There is a small caveat, of course.
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but I just installed the Get Recent Comments Wordpress plug-in, tweaking it slightly to only look for trackbacks, adjusting the output to suit my needs. Just underneath the main Beyond the Rhetoric banner at the top of this page, you’ll find a link that reads something like “Site XYZ loves Beyond the Rhetoric!”
In order to get your site featured at the top of every page on Beyond the Rhetoric, simply send a pingback to any of my posts. The plug-in doesn’t seem to recognize incoming links to the homepage (btr.michaelkwan.com), because these links don’t result in a “comment” within a post. It is the Recent Comments plug-in, after all.
To get twice the bang for your buck, you should enter the contest to win an iPod nano. In order to enter the random draw for the 4GB nano, you have to link to this blog and Ed’s blog anyways, so you might as well send a pingback to a single post too and get an automatic free backlink. There’s less than one week left in that contest (but the backlink deal is semi-permanent).
Keep sending those trackbacks and you’ll keep seeing your name at the top of this page. This is just my way of saying thanks to the Beyond the Rhetoric community. 
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You may want to moderate trackbacks as you can see I just faked one
I’m not sure if I should thank you for pointing that out or shake my fist at you for getting me to read the Friday Funny thoroughly. (I clicked through the top link when I noticed that it changed from John Chow.)
Lol, very nice of you to point out and I have to admit that I had the exact same thought of doing that.
BTW, I think this is a great way to give a little something more back to those that link to you. Nice job Michael.
LOL, how do you fake trackbacks, anyways?
Thanks for offering this!
Very cool offer/addition. I really like it!
You mean you didn’t find the link?
Keep looking
LOL