Introduction

ShowReferers has worked decently for a first stab at the idea of the automatic linkback. Watching a myriad of other implementations pop up has gotten me started thinking about improvements for a next-generation of my own. Feel free to contribute your own wishes here.

Wishlist

• Terms
  • Linkback?
  • Referer vs referrer - Correct it?

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• • • referer - Misspelling, or technical language evolution?
    • referrer - Just spell it right, you dingbat.
• Link presentation
  • Referrer link count
  • Full link list
  • RSS feed
  • E-mail notification on newly discovered referrals
• Site integration
  • PHP drop-in script
  • Perl module for easy CGI/mod_perl use
  • Perl CGI script available for SSI use
  • JavaScript output for client-side include use
• Annotation
  • Personal - private control panel for link annotation
  • Public - public attachment of notes
• Karma - Simple public thumbs up/down vote on link
• Investigation
  • Visit referring pages to harvest metadata for use in link presentation and analysis
    • Trivial effort on referring page
      • HTML page title
      • Link context text
    • Needs cooperation from referring author
      • Embedded RDF
      • Page header meta tags
• Deployment
  • Free service like http://www.blogrolling.com
    • How to pay the bills?
  • Open source, cheap service
    • Need a biz plan. (Have little biz savvy.)

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Somewhere between trivial and moderate effort: track down the permalink for a referral from a blog home page (or category page, or date archive: a default Movable Type blog will give you referrals from four URLs for a single link). Get the next n, then the previous n, internal links, looking for the same link/link text? -- PhilRingnalda 13 Jun 2002

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