I am sure at times Techcrunch can receive upwards of 200 links for a post, though a fair percentage would be from splogs either scraping Techcrunch, or the people linking to Techcrunch.

I would never expect Michael to link through in updates to everyone who linked to him who had something to say, but it is good practice to have pingbacks/trackbacks displayed.

Mine appear after the comments box, and I have seen 50+ clicks in my stats through to such links on popular posts.

The company complains that we write about them only because it drives controversy and traffic. That is, of course, absolutely correct. I freely admit it.

Unfortunately you deleted that from the original post, but it is still available online from people who syndicate your content.

Damn splogs are useful sometimes.

That wasn’t even a unique occurrence, I can recall similar comments in the past, but I would have to invest some time digging them out, and there is always the chance they are no longer present.

There is nothing wrongwith being controversial, or having a very firm opinion, but the more one sided your opinion is, the more you should try to at least ensure trackbacks make it through for some balance.

As to the rest of the article, I think I gave you a lot of slack, as the lack of trackbacks appearing these days could well be a major fault of Akismet.

I can remember times during heated blogging debate where there were 40+ trackbacks appearing on Techcrunch posts. Those days are gone – I don’t know the reason.

Sure, a good deal of those trackbacks were from the likes of the useful resource I just dug up, but what of the remainder?

Thanks for taking the time to comment