to all you smart bloggy-know-it-alls out there, some questions
Okay guys, a few months back, I had an icky experience happen with one of my posts. One of those gross aggregator blog thingies put a link to one of my posts that had stuff about my daughters into a sick pr0n blog. Luckily, I caught it from Technorati only a few hours after it happened, but still. Ick! I made that post neighborhood only. Now, I like that Vox has the whole neighborhood vs friends thing, but honestly, my kids are such an integral part of my life, and my some of my family and friends don't want to join vox, that I hesitate to make all posts about them neighborhood/family/friends only. Not sure what to do about that dilemma. There's the whole should I/shouldn't I post about my children for their safety argument that I don't feel like hashing about right now.
So my questions are this:
-I know on other blogs, you can track where your click-throughs are coming from. Can you do that on vox?
-Is there a better way to find out who links to you than technorati? It seems to not quite be the information I'm looking for.
that's it for now. I know that vox has severely restricted use of 3rd party widgets. Can anybody help me?
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You can use a google search. Type link:lulubird6.vox.com in a google search to see who links to you. You can create an RSS feed or an alert on this search to see new additions.
I think you handled it as best as you can. You might be able to report this as abuse to vox. If the aggregator is doing anything againt Vox's Terms of Service, they can block traffic that clicks from this source.
- you can use any search engine to check who links to your blog (on google, you can also define alerts that are then being emailed to you when something surfaces in their search engine)
- the Vox people are working on more freely customizable sidebars, so that we will be able to place widgets there. Theoretically, you would then be able to place e.g. a sitemeter there (or any other stats code), but I am not sure of course.
You ended up on that p site, because bots and spiders can fetch the RSS feed to your blog. It's an annoying thing, and it happens with a lot of other things on the web, too.
Lastly, switch off the RSS feed, so that bots can't auto-harvest it. Go to "My Vox - > Design -> customize sidebars (or so...)" and then tick off the "subscribe module".
Hope this helps.
Still, gross. I turned off my RSS feed as suggested by mademoiselle.a and when I have 5 spare minutes, I will inform vox of this possible violation.
On the knittinghelp.com forums someone had the same issue...photo of her child was on a no-no site.
I don't like having to think about any of this. We're moving soon and I want our family to be able to keep up with us. Might have to resort to password protecting posts. Blech.
I have a professional presence and an anonymous presence on the internet. My personal presence is very separated from the internet. A personal e-mail adres for close friends, a work e-mail for work and an anonymous e-mail/identity for the rest of the world. I strictly separate information type per presence to prevent the possibility of correlation. Of course my private friends know the other identities too.
And as such really private pictures should not even permanently reside on your pc. Just in case it get's infected with spyware...
It is best to assume that information posted on the internet is never lost and always indexed...