Al-Muhajabah's Movable Type Tips

Technorati is one of the best resources on the web for finding out who's linking to your blog. Thanks to Adam Kalsey, you can now include results from Technorati on your page (David Raynes has a simpler plugin).

The Technorati A plugin can list the most recent links to your blog as a whole, or it can list only the links to a given entry. It's the second option that makes this plugin so cool. Download the plugin and follow Adam's instructions for configuration and upload. It involves a bit more than most plugins, but is worth it.

I've added the new plugin tags to my individual entry archive pages in a section called "Linkbacks". It lists up to ten blogs that have linked specifically to that entry. This is a great supplement to Trackback since it works for non-MT bloggers and for MT bloggers who fail to ping you (bad bloggers! bad!). Technorati is that good. With a few exceptions, if people are linking to you, Technorati will find it. The exceptions are weird blogs like mine with a non-standard set-up. I don't have any real links on my main page and that's where Technorati looks. But for most blogs, it will do the trick. I have to say, this plugin sure is sweet!

Note: I later removed the code on the individual entry archives because it sometimes killed my pages if Technorati returned an error, and I use a link to Technorati instead. However, I make use of the "links to the blog as a whole" functionality to create a list of reciprocal links for The Niqabi Paralegal, one of my other blogs.