Friday, April 5, 2013

Understanding the Back and Forth of Backlinks...

"Off With Her Head" by Le Tron ~ "Toys With A Twist!"

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore…


“Giselle, enough is enough! ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE!” stated Madame Le Tron in no uncertain terms.

“Je comprend, Madame, but she can’t go back to the ‘other realm’ now,’’ retorted Giselle.



“And just why is that, Mon Cherie?”

“She has unfinished business, and everyone knows a ghost with unfinished business can’t go back,” Giselle replied tartly.

“That has nothing to do with going back, Giselle, and everything to do with ‘crossing over.’  Alice ‘crossed over’ rather nicely, I might say, when she drowned in the bath at the age of three.  That was over 103 years ago.”  The sound of running water could be heard above stairs as childlike laughter came tittering into the room.

“Nice touch, Alice,” continued Madame Le Tron, pulling her lab coat collar up around her neck. “Why can’t you be one of those ghosts that heat up a room whenever they enter, not chill it down?”

Madame’s black-wool shawl slowly made its way from the back of Madame’s desk chair and up over her shoulders, seemingly by itself. “ I hope this is ‘service with a smile,’” quipped Madame. “Merci, Alice.”

 “But Madame,” pleaded Giselle.

“No, no, no, Mon Cherie, enough is enough! Alice is going BACK,” Madame Le Tron repeated yet again.  With that, doors started to bang, lights started to flash, and Madame was spun round wildly in her desk chair!

“Stop!” commanded Giselle.

“Arretter!” cried Madame.

“Buzz-Buzz, Beep-Beep!” added Ghoulish Gordon as he entered the room.


“Gordon, you must send her back!” commanded Madame Le Tron, her desk chair coming to a sudden stop.


“Gordon, you can’t send her back!” cried Giselle, pushing her beret back upon her pretty blonde head.”

“Beep-Buzz, Beep, Buzz, Beep-Beep!” offered the robot in his own defense.

“Alice has unfinished business to attend to, and I promised I would help. I can’t help her if she leaves now,” frowned Giselle, barely able to hold back her tears.

Ghoulish Gordon turned to Madame, raising a wrench-like hand to his left eyebolt.

“No tears maintenant, Gordon or you will rust. And dear, sweet Giselle, what is troubling you so?”

Down the hallway came a timid tapping, and as the tapping grew louder and nearer, Giselle’s frown slowly turned upside down.

      “Tip-tap, tip, tip.  Tip-tip, tip, tap.”

“Oh, Madame, they came!  They‘re here!  Oh Alice, entrez s’il tu plait!” squealed an excited Giselle.

Two tiny tap shoes and a small pink striped tutu, fit for a three-year old, floated into the room.  First one shoe tapped, and then the other.

“Oh, tres adorable,” exclaimed Madame Le Tron.  “Might I assume that this is the unfinished business you have been referring to?”

“Qui, Madame, we have been waiting ever-so-long for Alice's tap shoes to arrive and now they are here,” beamed Giselle.

“Tip-Tap, “ echoed little Alice.

“Beep-Buzz,” added Ghoulish Gordon.

“So, now we can send our little ghost back to where she belongs.  Gordon, since you were the one to conjure little Alice up, please kindly ask Alice to leave now,” said Madame Le Tron.

“Un moment, Madame,” interrupted Giselle, as she made her way to Madame’s computer followed by the floating tap shoes and tutu. “I need to set up a backlink.  You know Madame, a connection for coming and going back.”

“Well, after reading Debbi ‘s article on the Handmade Artists’ Blog  (see link below),  I now have a solid understanding of backlinks, Giselle.  However, I am not certain I understand how backlinks come into play in our current situation with little Alice here.”


“To tell the truth, Madame, I am not sure that I completely understand it either, but, as with any new technology, one must experiment with it and then simply trust that it will work. Ghoulish Gordon has assured me it is only a matter of time before technology catches up with the ‘other realm’ or vice-a-versa. And at this point, the ‘other realm’ is using ‘backlinking technology’ to move back and forth between here and there.”

Giselle typed furiously upon the computer keys while copying code that flashed across the monitor embedded in Ghoulish Gordon’s chest.

“Voila!” cheered Giselle, as she pressed “enter,” and the tiny tap shoes and tutu began to fade away.  “I’ll see you next week for your lesson, Alice!  Oh, and don’t forget your new shoes!”

“TIP–TAP J,” printed slowly across the computer screen.

“Tip – Tap little one,” whispered Giselle.

Au revoir!  See you next Friday at 3 pm for another adventure from the Wonderful World of Le Tron.



Madame





Note: Backlinks were a bit of a challenge for us.  One thing we did learn is that you have to have your blogspot blog settings, set-up to allow them.  You can do this by following the instructions below and then having a little trust!


 For Blogger the backlinks setting can be found under the Settings | Posts and Comments tab, and consists of a single, simple option to turn it on or off:
The default templates are already set up with the necessary code for backlinks. However, if you have a custom template, or one of our templates from before this feature was launched, you will need to add the code yourself. Instructions for that are here.
Once everything is set up, you'll see a new link marked "Links to this post" next to the comment link for each post. If you click that link you'll be taken to the post page, where the backlinks are all listed beneath the comments. Clicking the triangles next to each link will display a snippet of text from the page linking to you, as well as some author and date information.




We would love any advice or tips you might share! 
Please post them below!

Please review our archives to enjoy our past adventures including – SIMPLE HOW TO ORGANIZE THE UNEXPECTED WORKLOAD and learn just how Ghoulish Gordon did “conjure-up” Alice! J






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