Daily post not Linking Back
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I think I know how the problem starts. I can backtrack to the first post (last post that was actually linked onto the Prompt page.) My post was published twice – first as the draft number “5073” and then with the title.
When you scroll down and click on the link to the Daily Prompt, you will see there are two links there back to my post. This is when the problem began and since then the Daily Prompt will not post my links.
I have checked this out with one other blogger friend and he has the same history – once the Daily Prompt posts a duplicate, it will no longer link back to our future posts.
I hope this helps someone there. I’ll let you know if I find any other similarities.
Thanks – Susan
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Thanks so much for doping that research and for providing that information for Staff in this thread.
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I’m sire that it will but today is Sunday so don’t expect and instant response from Staff please.
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Hi everyone,
I also pingback problems with the Daily Post:
The pingbacks I created to the last two weeks’ photo challenges didn’t work, and self-pings have also stopped working n my blog.
The URLs of the corresponding posts are:
http://bymarion.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/november-walk/
http://bymarion.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/on-an-unexpected-yard-sale-and-building-a-chimney/Anyone else?
Thanks for your help,
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Hi everyone – Thanks for the additional reports here. We definitely understand that not being able to participate in the Daily Post challenges is frustrating. We’re trying to nail down the exact issue. I’ll keep this thread updated when we figured out a fix!
@cancerisnotpink:
I have checked this out with one other blogger friend and he has the same history – once the Daily Prompt posts a duplicate, it will no longer link back to our future posts.
Thanks for the additional details here! I’ll try to replicate using this method.
@bymarion – Thanks for the additional reports here! Again, I will keep this thread updated.
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http://teepee12.com/ — Serendipity
As far as I can see, there are — as of this writing — zero responses to the daily prompt. I got double posted yesterday. Maybe it has some bearing on the problem.
This problem first appeared when The Powers That Be decided we needed a glitzier format and eliminated the old pingback system. Before that, the software worked dependably. Without difficulty.
I’m assuming it will be back to normal tomorrow? The lack of so much as a notification from Word Press makes me wonder about that. Do you guys CARE? Or is this much ado about, in WP’s opinion, nothing?
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@teepee
Do you guys CARE? Or is this much ado about, in WP’s opinion, nothing?
Wow! I don’t know why you would say that.
Clearly Staff are aware of the issue, trying to determine the cause and a fix for it.
However, as traffic appears to be your concern perhaps the tips I link to below will assist you to gain organic traffic by means other than relying on Staff driven memes to generate it for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/how-to-get-more-traffic/
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/traffic-dos-and-donts-a-checklist/ -
- Clearly Staff are aware of the issue, trying to determine the cause and a fix for it.
However, as traffic appears to be your concern perhaps the tips I link to below will assist you to gain organic traffic by means other than relying on Staff driven memes to generate it for you.
Exactly what gives you the right to insult me? Did I say anything about traffic? Did I mention it? Suggest it? Hint at it? In any way? Or is this some sort of standard response you cut and paste without regard for the message to which you are supposedly responding? Do you actually get paid for being obnoxious? Or do you take on the task of being rude for the fun of it?
Shame on you.
- Clearly Staff are aware of the issue, trying to determine the cause and a fix for it.
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Please read you own history of snarky posting into the forum threads on this single issue objectively.
The lack of so much as a notification from Word Press makes me wonder about that. Do you guys CARE? Or is this much ado about, in WP’s opinion, nothing?
That was what you posted Nov 24, 2014, 12:14 PM ie. after Staff jeremeylduvall posted Nov 24, 2014, 8:37 AM at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/daily-post-not-linking-back?replies=31#post-2146669
Shame on you for pretending that you don’t participate in Staff blog memes designed that are specifically to generate traffic to your blog and to all the blogs of the participants via pingbacks, when clearly that’s is what they are for and what they do.
A spade is a spade – it is not a shovel.
Shame on you for falsely accusing me of insulting you.
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Please see the sticky post at the head of the support forums.
WordPress.com Forums » Support > Daily Post Pingbacks
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1) Why do you bother to create prompts if you disparage those who use them?
2) Of course I want traffic. Don’t you? If you don’t want traffic, why blog? Keep a diary. As the owners/managers/creators of this blogging platform, do you not want your customers to enjoy success? Do you prefer obscurity?
3) The sense that no one cares about the daily prompts is not mine alone. The quality has been lacking, inspiration MIA. Lots of repetition, many word-for-word repeats of prompts from recent memory. It has become a sad step-child, with probably half the participation it enjoyed a year ago. Eventually, it will die completely and you can feel you’ve done your part.So yes, I wonder if you care. You certainly are doing your best to discourage people by failing to support it, acknowledge it, or give participants an iota of respect.
I didn’t invent it. It’s a WordPress creation. If you don’t think it’s worth doing well, admit you don’t think it’s worthwhile. Give it up. Others will step up to the plate. Nature and blogging abhor a vacuum.
Your opinion notwithstanding, the main reason we use prompts is to prod ourselves to write on subjects we might not otherwise approach. It may increase traffic, but maybe not so much.
A lot of bloggers are giving up on your prompts — and your attitude will surely increase the drift. I don’t get it. What’s your point? To antagonize users? Why? Is there a reason or is this just a personal thing?
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1) Why do you bother to create prompts if you disparage those who use them?
I don’t create prompts. Staff do that. They have a blog here http://dailypost.wordpress.com/ that’s dedicated to helping people learn how to blog and how to generate traffic to their blogs.
All prompts provided are memes that are specifically designed to trigger publication and pingbacks that drive traffic back to the blogs of those who participate in them. I clearly understand your distress about your pingbacks not posting and the resulting traffic loss because this is what I said in my first response to this thread being posted.
If your pingback is not displaying then that’s too bad because getting traffic from the Staff blog and other such memes is the easy way to “blog”. For some bloggers it’s the only form of blogging they do and the major source of traffic they have to their sites.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/daily-post-not-linking-back?replies=34#post-2144003Note that Staff jeremeylduvall’s response follows right after mine there. Please, please cut Support Staff some slack. They did not redesign the The Daily Post, and they are not responsible for whatever is wrong there, but they are charged with determining the cause and providing the fix and they are on the job.
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All prompts may be intended to drive traffic, but they have been increasingly less successful in doing it. The past year shows a big drop in participation. That you personally didn’t make the changes? Yes, well, that’s corporate work life for you. Others make decisions, you take the heat. A pity that so much of what was “fixed” was not broken until now.
I have not seen anything from Jeremy. It seems to have been eaten by other messages.
Don’t assume you know why I — or anyone — does what they do. WP has its reasons for creating prompts, but we who follow have our own reasons. If I was depending on your prompts to get me traffic, I’d be in sad shape. DP accounts for
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25 hits out of 400+ per day on a good day. Sometimes less. Rarely more, if it’s a better than usual topic. Many bloggers have quit. I don’t
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prompts, but I enjoy following a path I didn’t self-generate.
Drive traffic? I think it drives traffic away as much or more than it brings it in. Have you looked at the number of participants now vs. last year You might take a look, then revise your opinion based on what you see.
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Hi everyone,
I went ahead and locked this thread. I’ll continue to keep it updated regarding the Daily Post pingbacks. We’ve identified the cause, and we’re currently working on a resolution.
Just a reminder, please make sure to use a positive and productive tone in forum discussions.
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