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I was experimenting with wondering why I when my fellow blogger’s Linkback to my website, I don’t see the Linkback in my WordPress admin or when I do blogsearch link:http://www.dragonblogger.com

Well I have discovered the answer, google considers http://www.dragonblogger.com and http://dragonblogger.com two completely separate URLs even though they end up on the same site if you hit either one.

So when I go to Google Blogsearch and type:

link:http://dragonblogger.com

I found 8 additional Linkbacks to my site over the last 30 days on top of the 10 Linkbacks listed for http://www.dragonblogger.com.  This means my total Linkbacks for the month so far is 18.

My question is:  Even with my Dreamhost account set to redirect http://dragonblogger.com to http://www.dragonblogger.com, it doesn’t affect if someone links back to http://dragonblogger.com.

Remember this, if you are checking Linkbacks, don’t trust the WordPress Admin fully, make sure you Google Blogsearch both your www.domain.com and your domain.com and combine the two.

If my fellow bloggers knew that this worked this way, let me know how you deal with your tracking, or if you know of any way to make WordPress admin count both the www.domain.com and domain.com when it shows the Linkbacks.

-Dragon Blogger

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