”linking to your blog”

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  5700words · Member · Sep 3, 2010 at 9:41 am

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  I read this here: ”Incoming Links

  This section of stats is pulled from Google Blog Search to display URLs around the Internet linking to your blog. We do not control these links.“
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  My question is, how are you defining ”linking”? Does this mean that the other person has put you on their blogroll? That the other person visited your blog and then left. How exactly is ”linking to your blog“ defined? I am pretty sure that it is not a subscription. Is it when someone has an RSS feed of your/my blog?

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  naokomc · Member · Sep 3, 2010 at 11:50 am

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  A link to your blog from another WordPress.com blog may show up on:

  – Blogroll (or other sidebar widget)
  – Pages and Posts
  – “Possibly Related” (If you have it turned on)

  If someone clicks any of these and comes to your blog (and if their blog is not set as private), the incoming link will indicate where the visitor clicked the link.

  You may also have incoming links from a link within a feed (= same as links in the posts). The visits from feeds is counted differently.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/#feeds-and-statistics

  Links in the email sent for subscription will not show up as incoming links.