What’s the difference between Incoming Links and Referrers?

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  rockwow · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 4:39 am

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  What’s the difference please?

  Referrers are the links mentioned on other websites that point to your blog right? But then what are Incoming Links ?

  Thanks for your help :) !

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 5:02 am

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  When someone places a link to a page or post on your blog on their blog (post or comment), that represents an incoming link.

  When someone clicks on one of those links, that is a referral. Each incoming link can produce any number of referrals.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 5:19 am

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  Or none. It all depends where they’re placed.

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  rockwow · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 5:34 am

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  But I only see one incoming links but lots of different sources of referrers.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 5:36 am

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  Incoming Links is hooked up to Google Blogsearch, and quite often it misses some. The most important thing is to make sure they show up on Technorati, so check yourself out there. If a blog links to you and doesn’t show up as a referrer on Technorati you should go to their Ping Us page (at the bottom of the main Technorati page) and put that blog’s URL in there, so Technorati scans it for links. Then it should show up.

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  rockwow · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 7:04 am

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  sorry but I still don’t get the differences :(

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  rockwow · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 3:57 pm

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  @the sacredpath: the thing is: the only incoming link I have is the link on the splogger I talked about in the other thread.

  All the referrers I have on my stats page are from: digg/upcoming, some search engines, some mails people have sent to each other, etc but the only incoming link I have is still the one from the splogger.

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  ellaella · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 4:13 pm

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  @rockwow – Aggregators, search engines, email, etc do not show up as links. There are links in those places for people to click and when they do, you see the referring source as a referrer.

  Some sploggers do indeed show up as incoming links, even at Technorati.

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  nournours · Member · Dec 28, 2007 at 3:14 pm

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  what is a referrer “WordPress Dashboard” ?

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  ishmeet · Member · Dec 28, 2007 at 3:16 pm

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  A referrer “WordPress Dashboard” means that somebody reached your blog by clicking a link in their dashboard. That happens when your blog/post is listed in the top blogs or the new posts area in the WordPress.com dashboard.