I spend too much time worrying about what Google thinks of my websites. It seems to have a mind of its own. I am usually disappointed in looking at my page rank, and general search engine performance, since I seem to further and further down the rankings.
Just recently this blog has mysteriously shot up. It seems to have coincided with my commenting on postings by Becker and Posner, a blog that I very much admire. They are always thought provoking, even if they can be rather ideological on occasions. You may think that This post is too Panglossian, for example.
What I didn't realise is that Movable Type is smart enough to parse the blog entry and fill in the trackbacks automatically. Previously I'd been carefully cutting and pasting the trackbacks into the relevant field on the posting screen.
I remain convinced that a modest level of link exchanging is beneficial to one's page rank. If you have a blog and you'd like to swap links, then please drop me a line. This means you, Neil!
