Yesterday, I posted about why you should ensure that you are linking directly to someone's post, and not to their feed's link - specifically for people who are using Feedburner for their feeds. Feedburner links you to Feedburner's site and then redirects you to the actual item.

I discovered the difference when I linked to an O'Reilly article about ASP.NET development heating up. The article was picked up by Memeorandum, Tailrank and most of the other meme trackers, but my post, which was done pretty early, did not. And Technorati didn't recognize that I'd linked to it either. So I figured out why - I was linking to the feedburner URL and not the actual URL.

Then I wrote that post proclaiming that you should link to?web pages and not feed links. Then I did a little test to see if what I was saying was true.?Actions first, proof later!?I was going to write about AOL opening up the AIM network anyway, and I chose to link to Dave Winer's announcement to see what would happen. Everything he writes ends up on the meme trackers, so it was a good bet.?And guess what? This morning, there's RossCode.com listed on Memeorandum.

Oddly, though, Dave's post isn't.

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