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Navel gazing: trackbacks return; link updates

May 26, 2009

We've tweaked a few things here:

- I have re-opened trackbacks. Trackbacks enable people who link to a post to put a link to the linking post at the bottom of the linked post - similar to a comment. I turned them off some time ago because all of the trackbacks I ever got were spam. In theory, they're a great way to help bloggers communicate, and to encourage back-and-forth traffic between blogs. In practice it doesn't always work that way, as you have to take the extra step of "pinging" the blog to make the trackback work.

We'll see how it goes; I have cleared my first spam already. I invite anybody linking to a post here to use it. I invite spammers to take a soothing kerosene bath while enjoying a relaxing cigar.

- I updated the blogroll. New additions include The Bean Walker, a Drudge Report-format blog for Iowa news; Tax.com from Tax Analysts; and Monica Lawver, The Tax CPA, a working-from-home CPA based in Dayton, Ohio.

Finally, a mystery resolved. We got a lot of visitor traffic here during tax season from "The Other McCain," a prominent right-side blog. I was mystified, as I didn't see any post where he seemed to reference me, but it was tax season, so I didn't spend a lot of time on it. Now I have stumbled on the answer. I never imagined the Tax Update would be mentioned in the same breath as high blog visitor traffic; we're an acquired taste at best. So you're welcome, Robert Stacy McCain, and thank you.