{"id":287,"date":"2008-05-10T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/287"},"modified":"2008-05-10T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T14:22:53","slug":"silly-blog-games-part-i-robo-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/287","title":{"rendered":"Silly Blog Games, Part I: Robo-Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my brief time in the blog-o-truncated-icosahedron (I’m not convinced it’s a sphere), I’ve gotten to know and be indifferent to the automatic pingback. The strange and wonderful spiders\/bots that crawl the web and look for keywords, and link to your blog post. Much of the time, it happens because of some innocuous term you’ve included \u2014 just yesterday, I wrote about some non-hoops player being officially included in the NBA draft<\/a>, and made mention of the NFL, and got a pingback from somebody’s NFL-themed blog. I mentioned taxes<\/a> the weekend before April 15th, and got three tax-related pingbacks. They obviously were not from people who had read the post.<\/p>\n

So I got to thinking, (always a dangerous thing)
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What word could one use to maximize the pingbacks? Not that this is a noble or desirable goal or anything. I imagine many blogs just turn off the feature of allowing pingbacks in the comments if and when it becomes plague-level<\/p>\n

Could this play on any competitive nature bloggers might have?<\/p>\n

And would they be willing to “waste” a post doing something so stupid? The answer that is almost certainly, “yes” from the “many-blogs” interpretation of the universe that I just made up: there isn’t a topic so stupid that you can’t find somebody<\/em> to blog about it. Case in point.<\/p>\n

But we need rules. This should be a one-shot experiment based on your own experiences and ingenuity, rather than using multiple iterations.<\/p>\n

\u2014 The post shall be eight words in length, and the length of the post shall be eight (five is right out!). Just written out as a (probably) nonsensical sentence
\n\u2014 No links in the post, or anything embedded or invisible
\n\u2014 Title should be the same for everyone: “Robo-tag blog game” No fair sneaking in extra words here!
\n\u2014 Sites that already pingback to everything you post don’t count
\n\u2014 Multiple attempts (if you really want to go there) can’t duplicate words from a previous post<\/p>\n

And, of course, anything else I can think of that will maximize my chances of winning. (Having a small number of regular readers, not all of whom blog, certainly helps with that<\/em>)<\/p>\n

“Seriously” though, any other rules anyone can think of?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my brief time in the blog-o-truncated-icosahedron (I’m not convinced it’s a sphere), I’ve gotten to know and be indifferent to the automatic pingback. The strange and wonderful spiders\/bots that crawl the web and look for keywords, and link to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}