Notifications of Being Mentioned in Carnivals? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Howdy Yakezie!

I was curious how everyone is doing being notified of being included in carnivals these days.

Are the trackbacks coming through pretty well?

For me, ever since the carnival hosts stopped needing to log in to a central email address to access the submissions, I haven't been receiving the email notifications when my posts get included like I used to. Since I'm not on Wordpress, I don't receive the trackbacks either, and Google Alerts don't seem to be very reliable, even though I have them set up. 

Just curious what everyone else's experiences are these days and if you're using some other tool to be notified when your site is mentioned online. 

Thanks! 

Jacob

I'm with Edward, I usually rely on pingbacks while checking for spam. Although, I don't get emails when the carnival goes live, I keep the emails and check the site that it's supposed to be published on for a few days and then figure that it's a no go if it's been a week.

For anyone who hosts a carnival – It's in your best interest to email everyone that is included!

I am not convinced I receive all ping backs; the reasons I know I don't is that sometimes I come across a monetion that I have not received. Carinival inclusion notifications sometimes come much later – sometimes months. And I know that people don't receive my pings though all is enabled.

Have no idea how to sort it out.

Maria

I usually just rely on pingbacks, since most hosts don't get the emails of those who submitted. I don't know if all the pingbacks are coming through, but I can tell you that most of the time I don't get Google alerts when I'm mentioned even when I do get a pingback. I used to get alerts for everything.

I keep a log of the carnivals I submit to, then once a week I Google the name of the carnival and filter on anything indexed in the last week.  I'll usually find the carnival and can then go see if I was included. 

Blogger Carnivals also lists the hosts.  Just click on it to see if your post is included.  That's why I usually only use Blogger Carnivals to submit.

I have the trackbacks feature turned off on my blog, as it does not give any value to the readers. I look for an email from the host to know I should link back and share.

mbecker said:

I was actually just about to ask this, but with regards to backlinks in general. I'm still on blogger (I know, I need to switch), and I'd like to be able to figure out when someone has linked to one of my posts. My traffic is small enough right now that I can pretty much just notice when I'm getting traffic from a certain site, but is there a better way to follow this? I see that people are mentioning pingbacks above. Sorry for the newbie question, but what exactly does that mean and how would I use it?

I'm on my 4th year of using Blogger, so I know your pain! I have Google Alerts set up for when my name, my blog's name, or my blog's url is mentioned online, but it only works when older sites (4-5 years old or more) link to, not for blog carnivals etc. 

You can get some sort of idea by seeing your traffic sources on Google Analytics from referring sites. That helps me a lot of the time too!