Dashboard – Incoming Links Problem

  • inspired2write

    (@inspired2write)


    18 years ago

    Hi,
    This really has me puzzled! I’m not sure if this is a WordPress problem, or would this have to do with Technorati? Earlier in the week I updated my WordPress from 2.03 to the newest 2.05 version. I thought everything was fine until I noticed a link problem yesterday.

    In WordPress Dashboard > Incoming Links, it is showing the most recent incoming links as coming from my own blog posts of my same blog! I also noticed in Technorati that it is showing the last 6 incoming links as coming from my own blog posts! I’m not referring to one of my other blogs, but to it showing incoming links from my same blog! My url I’m referring to is: https://www.linkandblog.com if that helps to figure this out.

    I did a search here in the forum and didn’t find anything recent or similar for this challenge, so I don’t know if this is an isolated case or if something got goofed up when I upgraded my WordPress program, or could this be a problem with Technorati???

    I’m really baffled over this if someone could please help. Thank you!

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  • Ya I am experiencing the same problem and those technorati guys are just not willing to reply to my mails for help. Really can’t understand for what they are showing such attitude.

    Oh well. Merry Christmas.

    I’m still having this problem. All incoming links are my posts and all listed links at Technorati are mine also.

    Pretty useless.

    Anyone have this problem:

    I don’t mind that’s telling me what’s happenin’ in my own blog, I need that for my website.

    But on my Dashboard in the “Incoming Links” it’s repeated my own website’s link 8 times. And it keeps adding on to it everyday.

    Anyone have a solution?

    I think everyone in this thread has that exact problem. I seemed to have it licked for a while, but it came back with a vengance when I upgraded to 2.1. Despite what everyone seems to say, using relative links rather than absolute links does not make the problem go away. I’m out of ideas.

    I noticed this, but chalked it up to Technorati. I link to previous posts I’ve written frequently and I do so by having two windows open to WordPress Admin and searching for the previous post, then cutting and pasting the URL into the other browser window where I’m writing a new post.

    I never knew a better way when I started out using WordPress to link to previous posts, so I didn’t use relative links. I did use relative links for all my images, then WordPress added some new system of uploading images. I do it my own way using FTP still.

    I think this is a Technorati thing, only some of my links to myself show up. Only some trackback to myself. One other anoyance is which links WordPress chooses to trackback. I know you can try and force it by putting the URL in the box below, but sometimes I forget and I don’t really care for my own site. However sometime at a later date I’ll edit a post and then it tracksback for more links so the timestamp is all screwed up.

    Oh well, with the exception of a few plugins WordPress seems to work well enough for me. I’ve even been tasked with setting it up for others.

    I sent them an e-mail last week and got this a few minutes ago:

    Hello Vincent,

    Please accept my sincerest apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We’ve been experiencing a backlog in support and are
    working hard to address everyone. I’ve taken a look at your issue regarding self-referencing links. It seems that you have
    discovered a bug in our system. Our engineers are working on correcting the bug as we speak and it should be resolved shortly.
    Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention.

    Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any other questions. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for using
    Technorati!

    Best Regards,
    ******* *****
    Customer Support Specialist
    Technorati

    Been “correcting the bug” for months now. It’s an occasional topic in wp.com land.

    I too have no “incoming links” section on my admin for https://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach (WP 2.1.2) but my other blogs (WP 2.0.4) have them just like usual. Does anyone know of this being a problem with newer versions of WP?

    Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions. Peace.

    I just upgraded and everything seemed fine..but today my dashboard is not showing any incoming links just recent posts and comments….

    Is this a related problem???

    No, not related.

    Here’s a related topic from *today* (not 5 months ago!): https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/115241?replies=6 ??

    I have encountered the same repeated incoming links problem as you guys. Technorati is not at all good on support. They shoot out stock responses to keep us quiet.

    As far as I see it, the problem we have is a Technorati issue.

    But I recall a post related to a plugin (not necessarily here at WordPress) that stated the upload and activation of the plugin, (cannot recall what it was) causes hassles with dashboard.

    I have since been trying to backtrack to that particular post. When I find it I will link to it from here for you guys to see firsthand. Hopefully it will be the answer but I doubt it.

    Nothing ventured nothing gained!

    It’s not a Technorati issue, the incoming links result from Google Blog Search …

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