As well as Technorati, which I've found to be unreliable, there's Bloglines and Google Blogsearch. I also have a Google NEws subscription covering links to each of my blogs, but given all are dormant except my LJ, they're quiet.
It's much more likely that the nutjobs are picking up your incoming links; essentially anything posted publicly on any sort of blog platform will show up on technorati or bloglines citation searches; that's usually a good thing but if you want to avoid the nutjobs then masking links to their sites and/or likely stories may help. anonym.to and tinyurl may both be useful; I've never bothered, beauty of UK politics is unless you want to wind up the BNP, the scariest nuts are the English Parliament campaign, and they're funny...
I've found three or four decent LJ friends through citation searches; they linked to a story and I found them through a citation search on that story, so I recommend not hiding your links too often, you never know when you'll get a good new reader.
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Date: 2007-05-24 12:19 am (UTC)It's much more likely that the nutjobs are picking up your incoming links; essentially anything posted publicly on any sort of blog platform will show up on technorati or bloglines citation searches; that's usually a good thing but if you want to avoid the nutjobs then masking links to their sites and/or likely stories may help. anonym.to and tinyurl may both be useful; I've never bothered, beauty of UK politics is unless you want to wind up the BNP, the scariest nuts are the English Parliament campaign, and they're funny...
I've found three or four decent LJ friends through citation searches; they linked to a story and I found them through a citation search on that story, so I recommend not hiding your links too often, you never know when you'll get a good new reader.