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Generate Traffic Using Free Methods

July 14th, 2008

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Putting up a blog would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the Internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your blog in generating traffic.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many blogs don’t have the resources that others have to generate more traffic. Well, you don’t have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your blog.

How sweet it is to have more traffic for your blog without spending a single cent. Now it’s a sure thing that many blog have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don’t need to speed a single cent, it may take time, to say honestly, I’m not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your Traffic Overdrive advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I’m about to tell you.

Take advantage of online forums and online communities.

The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.

With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your blog. Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.

You can also make use of newsletters.

Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.

While the first two methods above have been discussed briefly earlier, here’s another:

Another great idea is trading links with other blogs.

You don’t have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.

Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.

Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there’s a great probability that they will go to your blog.

Write good content for your blog.

Many Search Engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your blog uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your own but you have to make content for your blog that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality.

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Generally, Internet users use Search Engines to find what they are looking for. Search Engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in Search Engine results without the costs.

All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your blog for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man-hours. Learn all you can about the methods depicted here and you will soon have a blog with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.

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Increase Web Traffic NOW

July 13th, 2008

Internet. Business. Profit.

To fully integrate all of these words into a successful merging you will need another word. Traffic. Every article and reading material you will find about making your site or company successful would always include the importance of generating traffic.

So, we all know that in the core of it all, traffic is the most essential thing to a successful Internet based business company. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have your company’s internal organization well taken core of, it would be time to get to the nitty-gritty of things, generating traffic.

If you already have a site and you want think that you’re not getting the traffic that you’re supposed to be getting, then its time to reconsider. If you are contending in these very competitive business, you should always be a step ahead of your competition, increasing your traffic flow should have been done starting yesterday.

Timing is essential, that’s an old adage known to everyone. But with generating traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of everyone. Never think of today and tomorrow as a starting point for making your site traffic laden, it should always have been yesterday.

To help you out in generating more traffic for your site, here are some seven surefire ways in a nutshell to increase your traffic starting from yesterday.

(I’ll cover them and more in detail in the later posts of this blog)

Invest in good advertising with Search Engines

Google’s Adwords and Yahoo Small Business provide great advertising schemes that are very truly popular and assures great traffic. Although with this surefire way to increase your traffic would cost some money. While some would shy away from spending money to increase traffic, it is imperative in this case to do so because Adwords and Yahoo Small Business is the top surefire way to increase your traffic.

You could see for yourself the success this Search Engine advertising methods have reaped rewards for so many companies. Lots of site feature these advertising system and many have signed on to reap the benefits. Do not be left behind. Every penny is worth it with using Google and Yahoo’s advertising.

Remember: Learn before try

Exchange or Trade Links with other sites

With exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts both of you do to enhance your sites traffic. When one site features another sites link, they could provide one another with the traffic one site generates. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it would seem like both of you are working to generate more traffic. The more links traded with more sites the more traffic could be expected.

Use Viral Marketing

Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs or if ever low costs only. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company’s name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium that they will pass it on to many people.

I will cover this in detail in a later post.

Search and use proper keywords or keyword phrases for your sites content

Search Engines look for certain keywords that they would show in their results page. In doing so, having the right keyword and keyword phrase is a high requirement in ranking high in Search Engine results. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you.

Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site

Submit articles to sites that would contain the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell car parts write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article as well as the link.

Join forums and form online communities

Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you found a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will pass on to many people their trust. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.

Lastly, Offer newsletters or e-zines

If many people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, you will find a loyal traffic that can provide you with more traffic by recommendation. If you arouse the curiosity of your customers they would be pushed to help you with your traffic.

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10 Blog Traffic Tips

July 7th, 2008

In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don”t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it’’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’’s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it’’s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

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Does Your Blog Have A Hook? By Yaro Starak

July 5th, 2008
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Today’s blog traffic tip is a technique you can apply to your blog, and if implemented well, will achieve the following:

- Make your blog a destination point
- Increase your blog’s “stickiness”
- Bring traffic to your blog regardless of how (in)frequently you update
- Consistently attract incoming links

Best of all, you only need to implement this technique once for it to work well. If you do it twice, or thrice, your blog will be well on it’s way to becoming a superstar in the blogosphere.

Sounds like a miracle technique doesn’t it? Well read on to find out what I am talking about…

THE HOOK

If you are at all interested in pop music you will be aware of what is known as the “hook”. The hook is the element of a song that is just so catchy it makes you want to hear the song over and over again. It forces people who otherwise should not be singing to sing along while listening to the track. The hook is angerously powerful.

In terms of blogging the hook has the same characteristics that it has in music. A hook brings readers to your blog over and over again. It’s addictive, fun, or valuable and unique.

HOOK VS PILLAR

So what’s the difference between a “hook” and a “pillar”, the technique I talked about in previous articles and the core concept behind my course, http://www.BlogTrafficSchool.com?

A pillar is generally easier to produce and most successful bloggers will produce multiple pillars each month, some each week or even every day. A hook on the other hand is something so compelling and unique that you are lucky if you pull it off more than once a year.

You could think of a hook as a pillar on steroids. It has all the same characteristics but everything is magnified with a hook. It takes more work to pull off a successful hook, but the rewards are significant when done right.

Still confused?

Essentially a hook is something, and it can be a blog article, but often it’s a piece of software or a digital download, that provides tremendous value. The idea is this one resource brings in traffic to your blog because it helps a lot of people.

Word of mouth spreads a hook all over the place, with hundreds of bloggers linking to it, and people sending emails to tell their friends about it. A good hook comes up in conversation as the accepted way to get something done – as the best solution to a problem.

HOOK EXAMPLES

The professional blogging site, Performancing.com, released a plug-in for the Firefox Internet browser that allowed bloggers to post articles directly from their browser without logging into their blog software. This one piece of software is unique and very valuable to the whole blogging community and therefore was a hook for the Performancing blog.

The team behind Performancing no doubt worked hard to get the software designed right, it would not have been created over night. Their hard work paid off and when their plug-in was released they enjoyed a huge flow of traffic, exposure and incoming links. I still read blogs that mention the performancing plug-in when they first discover it. This demonstrates the long, ongoing traffic creating effect of pulling off a successful hook.

Performancing has gone on to release many more great tools for bloggers, including Performancing Metrics, a statistics tracking service for blogs, the Performancing Exchange, a place where bloggers and blog employers can advertise blogging jobs, and the latest, Performancing Partners, an advertising system designed to help connect blog publishers with advertisers.

All these services are hooks – they are not easy to set-up, provide tremendous value, leverage community and make Performancing a destination blog.

COMMUNITY BASED HOOKS

I’ve talked about the importance of building community at your blog in previous newsletters. Another form of a hook is a forum where all the fans of a hobby congregate and talk or trade. If that forum is hosted as part of your blog, then it is a hook, bringing people back to your site every day.

A forum or a chat room, a classifieds section, or a bulletin board, are all community services that can make your blog into a destination point and help your traffic grow without you directly creating the content – the community does the work for you.

It’s not by any means easy to build a successful forum or community service. It takes a while to gain traction – it’s about as hard as it is to  build traffic to a blog, so if you decide to go down the path of building a forum adjacent to your blog as a hook strategy, be prepared for some hard work.

Try this article to get you started with your forum building:

How to Build a Popular Forum Community in 5 Steps
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/41/building-a-forum-community/

DON’T BE DISCOURAGED

Remember a hook is a challenging technique to implement well. Most sites that have good hooks are the result of a team, or special talents. To build software or create a resource that is truly unique takes resources, timing, strategy and a good dosage of luck too.

In my career online I have created maybe one or two truly successful hooks. One was a forum(MTGParadise.com) that people started trading cards at so they kept coming back to trade, the other is my blog Entrepreneurs-Journey.com, which has the hook of my entire back catalogue of articles to help people build an Internet business. Both these two hooks took at least a year to build up to the point where I could really call them a hook.

Building a hook takes time. Keep at it for the long haul but make sure you see HOW the hook will work, don’t just assume it will work. You need to see the psychological pull, the addiction or fun or value that your service or content or resource provides. If you don’t have that, it won’t work.

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The Top 5 Ways to Generate Traffic With Less Work

June 22nd, 2008

Effective use of time is the main ingredient in creating a thriving blog or website. In this post, I want to explain some high-impact traffic generating techniques you can use that minimize time and effort without minimizing results.

1. Don’t write guest-posts — exchange them. Generally, a guest-post on another blog means one less post on your own blog. This doesn’t have to be the case. Exchanging guest-posts is an idea introduced to me by Trent from The Simple Dollar. It’s exactly what it sounds like: you write a guest-post for another blogger and, in return, they write a guest-post for you. While you’re out promoting, your blog is still freshly updated. It’s an arrangement that allows you to have it all at once.

Like any exchange, though, it should be equal. If the blog you’re swapping guest-posts with is too small, you’re not going to get much in return for your work. If the blog you’re swapping guest-posts with is too big, they won’t see how writing for your audience will benefit them in proportion to the work they have to do.

The obvious solution is to target blogs that are in (roughly) the same stage of growth as yours. This is not the only solution, however. You might still be able to get exposure on a big blog if you ask for less from the other person. For example, you might ask an A-list blogger to write 100 profound words in exchange for 500 from you. The extra exposure will be worth the extra work, and by making it easy for the other person, they’re more likely to accept the exchange.

2. Promote your site during daily tasks. Unless you’re incredibly dedicated, you probably use the internet for more than just blogging. It’s worth thinking about how you might be able to turn seemingly mundane tasks into promotional activities.

  • Put your blog’s URL at the bottom of your emails, so each message you send will promote your blog.
  • If you participate actively on forums, add your blog’s URL to your forum signature.
  • If you use Google Reader, you could share a post from your own blog with others who’re likely to be interested in it.
  • Put a link to your blog on your social networking and social media profiles.
  • Set Twitter to publish links to new posts from your blog.

3. Practice in-post networking. This can be as simple as finishing a post with a question to a few other bloggers: what do they think about such and such? You’ll probably want to follow-up with an email to make sure they didn’t miss the trackback. While you shouldn’t expect everyone you call upon to write a post relating to your idea, some might — particularly if your original post was food for thought.

Opinion-based topics are likely to get more uptake, especially if you call upon bloggers who’re likely to have strong thoughts about what you’ve written. If it only takes an extra minute to ask the question at the end of a few select posts, it’s definitely worth doing. Aside from the potential traffic benefits, engaging with other bloggers enriches your niche as a whole.

4. Release a ‘Best of’ eBook. Freebies generate excitement, links and traffic. An eBook of your ten best posts is a great way to introduce your blog to new readers. If you’re not too fussy about production values, you can put an eBook together in 15 minutes. Other eBook options are: publishing a post-series (I did this recently), collating your best posts in the past year, or collating your best posts on a particular topic to create something with a theme.

5. Build a mailing list and use templates. Whether you want others to link to you, vote for your articles or answer a question, emailing others to ask them a favor is time-consuming yet rewarding. Often, time-constraints stop bloggers doing this often. But if we look at what makes emailing a number of people time consuming, we can see that it doesn’t have to be.

First, create a few different mailing lists you can use in different situations — for example, one for social media votes, one for questions, one for sharing your work, and so on. Keep them in a safe place. By saving your mailing lists, you can make sure this is a job you only need to do once.

Secondly, for each group email you need to send, develop one template you can use. Even though you might end up sending the template email to a large number of people, aim to make it sound personal. This can usually be done just by greeting the intended recipient by name and addressing them as an individual rather than a group. Put plainly: you don’t want your template email to read like a template email.

Remember that templates are one person, one use. If you cut and paste the same email to ask for social media votes, for example, the process is going to seem uncomfortably mechanical.

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List of Ping Services from Daily Blog Tips

June 19th, 2008
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Ping services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources, so check out the list below and include it on your blog (Wordpress users can modify their ping list on the Control Panel, then Options, then Writing).

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

Source : Daily Blog Tips

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What Is A Trackback And How Can It Increase Your Blog Traffic

June 14th, 2008

When I first heard about blogs I struggled to get my head around the whole concept. What made a blog different from a normal website?

I quickly grasped the key differences – the diary style articles, the comments and the easy interface for adding new content. It all made sense until I hit something called a “trackback“.

“What the dickens is a trackback?!?” I thought.

I looked around for a definition and nobody could provide an answer I quite understood.

When I really want to learn something I go ahead and do it. I took action with my new blog and sent some trackbacks to other bloggers. Later as my blog become popular it was sent trackbacks. Having experienced both receiving and giving a trackback I understood what it was all about and felt much better.

WHAT IS A TRACKBACK?

About now is the time to write a nice and simple definition for you so you can get your head around trackbacking. I’ll try, but this is a concept that is difficult to fully grasp until you actually do it.

Here goes -

A trackback is a form of blog conversation that links two or more relevant blog entries together. One blogger writes an article that references or is relevant to another blog’s article and fills out the trackback section. When the blogger publishes the article the blog leaves a trackback on the other blog’s article, which usually appears in the comments area as a truncated summary with a link.

If you are still confused, and I suspect you probably are, the only solution is to initiate a trackback yourself. In the next blog article you write be sure to reference another blogger and send him or her some trackback lovin so you can get your head around the concept.

HOW TO SEND A TRACKBACK

Each blogging software system handles trackbacks differently. Bloggers can also choose to switch trackbacks off or require every trackback be approved before going live, so don’t be surprised when you send a trackback and it doesn’t show up, it may have nothing to do with you.

Some blogs will trackback automatically, or attempt to, especially if they are the same format. For example a WordPress blog trackbacking a WordPress blog. In that case as long as you include a link to the other blog’s post your blog will attempt a trackback (sometimes called a “pingback”).

Usually you have to manually enter a trackback URI into the blog entry you are creating. You can find the trackback URI at the end of most blog posts (take a look at your blog posts for the term “Trackback URI” or similar).

By the way -

URL = Uniform Resource Locator, a fancy name for ‘Link’
URI = Uniform Resource Identifier, another fancy name for ‘Link’

I use WordPress and for each blog post I make there is a trackback input box section for entering trackback URIs. I copy and paste the trackback URI from the blog entry I want to link to and when I click publish my blog will send the trackback. My blog will also confirm when a trackback has been sent after publishing my post.

If you are still confused send me an email and I’d be happy to help.

HOW TO GET TRAFFIC FROM TRACKBACKS

If you trackback someone else’s blog post you are leaving a link that points back to your blog. Someone who reads the blog article may click through from the link and visit your blog.

In some cases, if they are not using the “nofollow” tag, you get some PageRank juice (not sure what PageRank is? Read this short introduction – http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/275/pagerank-explained/) which will help your search engine rankings.

DEFINITION: NOFOLLOW

The “nofollow” tag is a line of code that some blogging systems, such as WordPress, implement automatically. The tag is added to every link left in comments and trackbacks so the search engines don’t follow the link (humans however view it like a standard link so can follow it like normal).

It’s supposed purpose is to stop people spamming blog comments purely for links but it really doesn’t work that well as a deterrent.

You can read more about NoFollow here -

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/181/blog-trackback-lies/

If you are a WordPress blogger you can install a plugin that removes the NoFollow tags for you. I use it on all my blogs. You can read more about it here -

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/236/no-more-nofollow/

TRACKBACKING FOR TRAFFIC

Trackbacks are good because they bring traffic to your blog when you trackback other blogs. Being the “victim” of a trackback is also good because it means another blogger has read your blog and deemed something you wrote worthy of including in their blog. There is a good chance if they trackbacked you that they also made a direct link to your blog too.

This helps your social proofing (remember the first newsletter?) because it provides evidence that other people are reading and responding to your blog articles. However the real power of trackbacking is an awareness building tool to get the attention of other bloggers.

When you first start blogging not many people will know your blog exists. By trackbacking other bloggers you demonstrate interest in their content which is a surefire way to make them interested in you and your blog.

It’s very likely that the blogger you trackbacked will follow the link and see what your blog is all about. If you have been following my advice and have written some pillar articles your new visitor will like what they see, very likely subscribe to your blog and if you are lucky may even trackback you or mention your blog in a future entry on their blog.

If nothing else, by trackbacking a blogger you will forever occupy some of their mind-space, which in the future may open up all kinds of doors and opportunities for traffic.

TRACKBACKING ETIQUETTE

It’s a fine art to use trackbacking as a traffic building tool. Many bloggers make the mistake of going trackback crazy before their blog has any content. This may bring new readers in but they won’t stay long or bookmark you because you don’t give them a reason to.

It’s also important to know your place in the blog hierarchy. The really popular bloggers are trackbacked constantly so you won’t likely get their attention by trackbacking because you will be one of many. You need to carefully pick and choose who you trackback and when you trackback if you want to use it for building your blog traffic.

Source : Blog Traffic King

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