Smugpanel - show the world who links to you
Are you quite proud about the amount of people linking to your site?
If you are, be smug about it and show it to the world, using a Smugpanel
Simply put a JavaScript in the HEAD of the document, customise it to your smug-URL, add a smug DIV and anyone can see who links to you.
July 8th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
I just got your message from the Evolt list discussion group. I downloaded the code for Smugpanel.
That’s as far as I got, but wanted to notify you of some concerns and see what you have to say about them.
Here are two quick observations:
(1) I printed out the page with instructions on Smugpanel, but the text/code in “The settings are” “Add the following to the HEAD of your page”, etc. are in very light grey type and hard to read. This is very common, so I’m not picking on you. It’s a usability problem, not huge, but a minor frustration that could be easily solved.
(2) Major problem = vampire RSS/Google search Blogs. When I click on the Technorati “blogs that link here”, lately, I’ve been seeing these Pseudo Non-human Blogs linking to me. You know, where the content is aggregated, accumulated automatically based apparently on RSS feeds from Google searches on such things as “American politics”, “innovative music”, whatever. Often you’ll see like 100 posts per day, just link logging, with brief excerpts from a post.
Thus, in this case, I would not want to display such bogus sites as linking to my blog.
Any thoughts on this? I emailed Leslie Orchard about this, but never heard from him.
July 9th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
maybe add a spam filter
July 9th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
when no results are found - should alert user otherwise throws error
July 9th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Looks real cool, too bad Yahoo data isn’t too useful for Dutch websites. A rebuilt with MSN would be nice :-)
September 24th, 2006 at 1:54 am
Is there any easy way to block or exclude specific urls or urls containing certain words?