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October 1, 2005

Ecosystem - Continue the Conversation and Evolve to a Higher Level

by Ferdinand T Cat

UPDATED on 12/11/2006!

The key to evolving to a higher level in the TTLB Ecosystem is to get links to your blog on the front pages of other blogs. This also helps improve your Google and Technorati rankings and increases the general visibility of your site We offer several services that put you on our front page.

First, this is the home of the Permanent Floating Ping Festival. You can get an article to appear in the Ping Festival by sending a trackback ping to

http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3

The article title and excerpt will appear in the little box on the front page below the My Best Stuff section. As a bonus, it will also show up on the Carnival Page and in the sidebar on our Ecosystem Stuff page. Because an excerpt is included, there is a chance that people who see the link will have their interest piqued and want to visit your site.

Each article on our main page displays direct links to the web sites of the six most recent commenters. This means that if you make comments to an article on our main page, it counts as a link for purposes of determining your rank in the Ecosystem. The presence of such links also helps to improve your search engine ranking. Articles stay on the main page for seven days.

All we ask is that the comments be reasonably relevant.

We have many other ways to help increase your visibility. If you are a cat lover, check out our Cat Lover's Page. If you decide to join the Cat Lover's Community, a link to your blog will appear on the front page of every other Cat Lover member blog, and you can send a trackback ping to

http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/1087

for each article you write about your cats. Cat Lovers frequently visit this page, so it's good publicity.

Every weekday we collect links to examples of conservative or non-political humor and post them in our Funny Stuff section. If you have a post that you think is particularly funny, submit it to Funny Stuff via EMAIL. Please note that we only accept articles from the current or previous day, so you can't use this technique for old posts you're particularly proud of.

Finally, there is Linkfest Haven Deluxe. Linkfest Haven Deluxe collects links to Open Trackback Posts. An Open Trackback Post is one which can be pinged by anybody, and the ping makes a link back to you appear on the pinged blog. This does not help you in the Ecosystem, but it does bring additional traffic. For more information, read The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns (which introduces the Open Trackback Alliance) or watch my Flash Movie, The Art of Linkfesting.

For more about trackbacks, click here. You can also check out Bad Example's trackback tips.

To everyone who links to us or participates in our blog, now or in the future, thank you for helping me to achieve world domination and for giving Bruce a fuzzy sort of feeling of usefulness.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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Comments

Thanks for the Best of Me Symphony plug.
I'm blogrolling your blog at this moment......


Posted by: The Owner's Manual at January 3, 2005 1:36 PM

No recip? That's cool. Never mind.


Posted by: The Owner's Manual at January 4, 2005 12:55 PM

The plug was no trouble at all!

I don't know why the Blogrolling recip-roll is not working. I've added you manually to the main roll (as I have had to do with several others).

I have been planning to submit something to the Symphony. The problem is that I love all my work so much it's hard to choose.


Posted by: Ferdy [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 4, 2005 1:00 PM

Heh. Okay. We'll leave the curtain up for ya.


Posted by: The Owner's Manual at January 6, 2005 4:17 PM

Good job on the Carnival Submission Page. A valuable, one-of-a-kind tool.

I am planning Part 2 of my blog marketing series for mid-March and plan to expound on the Carnivals. I've bookmarked your page to ensure that I don't forget to link to it.


Posted by: Timothy Lee at February 20, 2005 11:59 AM

I am trying to figure this out.............forgive me. Trackback means what?


Posted by: Pamela at March 12, 2005 8:06 AM

MOST SIGNIFICANT shift in the news paradigm is the role that media plays. No longer sufficient in merely bringing us the News, the American public is choosing its disseminator, its sifter, filter, prism and demanding thorough and complete journalism but one with a moral compass because a press is prejudicial when they are unable (or unwilling) to distinguish between terrorists and the victims of terror.


Posted by: Pamela at March 12, 2005 11:04 PM

Huh?


Posted by: clamor meus at March 13, 2005 11:54 PM

Ferdy,

You and my adopted brother Linus could be relatives. Of course your political leanings match those of my human, Cereal Dater. Little does she realize that I browse while she's at work. Hope she doesn't find out I've been subscribing to feline porn on her credit card...

Simon


Posted by: Cereal Dater at March 14, 2005 8:21 PM

Catblogging will become the wave of the future. I predict that soon every blog will be awash in kittens. That is, after the dogbloggers have been "dealt" with.


Posted by: Tom at March 15, 2005 6:10 PM

Can I submit additional op ed pieces?


Posted by: Pamela at March 25, 2005 8:03 AM

Thanks for the trackback help again, btw: it was very kind of you.


Posted by: Russ at March 31, 2005 2:05 PM

YES. I AM VERY KIND. I AM NOT PRETENDING TO BE NICE SO I CAN GET SUPPORT FOR MY ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

Just thought I should point that out.


Posted by: Ferdy [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 31, 2005 2:12 PM

Good idea encouraging comments and trackbacks!


Posted by: ferrethouse at June 10, 2005 2:39 PM

Good idea! New bloggers need as many ways to get some exposure as they can.

Including me! ;)


Posted by: Jim Hartline at July 10, 2005 10:30 PM

Great site and links you have.


Posted by: Right Jokester at July 13, 2005 3:28 PM

Oh, forgot, if you need any jokes feel free to use at my site


Posted by: Right Jokester at July 13, 2005 3:31 PM

Hi Bruce:

I found your blog while looking for information on carnivals. It sounds like a great way for everybody to gain exposure, while checking out other people's blogs. Until I started blogging outside of LiveJournal heavily a few months ago, I had no idea there was all this cool stuff out there for people to contribute to. I'll be sure and give you a TrackBack. Thanks for all the info.


Posted by: Amanda Rush at October 15, 2005 8:13 AM

I've sent a trackback from this article twice and despite having a link to you there, its not showing up in the linkfest:

http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/index.php?blog=2&title=faithful_conservatives&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Is there a problem with your trackbacks?


Posted by: Adam Graham at November 14, 2005 8:23 AM

Yes. Movable Type appears to strip the form data off the trackback link, so every one of your trackbacks is being flagged as a duplicate. Bruce is looking into this.


Posted by: Ferdy [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 14, 2005 10:44 AM

Funny thing—I'll look at the source later if/when I have the time--I just tried loading this page with my browser set to identify itself as Mozilla and... no load. Checked in a Mozilla browser. Fine. Came on back, set it to identify as a diff browser, loads fine.

Funny stuff.


Posted by: David at November 18, 2005 10:35 AM

There was a tag without a closing , and it was causing odd results. It should be fixed now.


Posted by: Ferdy [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 18, 2005 2:40 PM

Thanks, Ferdie. Chris is really an idiot at this blog stuff, but he has good ideas. I had him save this post in favorites so that he will eventually evolve. I love the guy, but he really doesn't apply himself to (blog)world domination.

-your friend and supporter (I got you the link on LEAVWORLD, for what it's worth), BUFFY the COSMIC KITTY


Posted by: Chris Leavitt at January 6, 2006 2:36 AM

HTML is not allowed in comments; however, if you put in a raw URL (http://www.somewhere.com/page.html) it will automatically be converted to a link.. Also, it is likely your comment will not appear unless you refresh the page manually after posting it.

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