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So why don't more people use Trackback?
One reason is that what is arguably
most popular free blog system, Blogger, doesn’t have Trackback. However, Haloscan.com can remedy this with their free service – it’s a cut and paste away.
Many new bloggers don't get what it is and how it differs from commenting. And of course, dynamics of it are a little more complex than I've stated. But learn to use Trackback properly, and you won't need to beg for links to your site ever again.
It's harder to estimate an exact number of visitors that come as a result of trackback links. But if you posted five days out of seven, and was able to get a trackback link to your site three times a week, by end of year you'd have almost 150 topical links back to your site, which are more valued by search engines than a typical link trade with an unrelated site.
The most overlooked source of traffic for a blog is through article submission. To start with, turn your longer posts into articles and submit them to ezines or directories. Look especially for directories that ask for direct link to article on your own site, and input permanent link to post on your blog.
Make sure that your Auto-Discovery tag is in place and it can mean hundreds more prospects, links and subscribers.
It's a shame this is one of least used traffic methods for most sites, let alone for blogs. In four days, this method generated just over 1000 visitors. 157 newsletter leads, 98 new feed subscribers, and 206 links to my site. You may not get these same results right away, but using these simple strategies can still get you more exposure than you have now.
These aren't normally highest quality links, as they rarely make sure of anchor text. However, bloggers are citing me using Trackback, sometimes in lieu of linking to site where they originally found article, so some anchor text linking does occur - enough, in fact, to make this worth your while.
To see this in action, do a search on "Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings", title of an article I submitted earlier this week.
That article was published within a week of this one- results speak for themselves. Many of these sites aren't ones where my articles are normally published.
There are, of course, plenty of other ways you can leverage content in your blog or RSS feed to increase traffic to your site. The methods outlined here may be a bit outside norm, but, as you’ll soon find, that’s part of reason they are so effective.
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