Blogging Tips: Enabling Trackbacks To Increase Your Links

Writing by Blog Marketing Journal on Thursday, July 10, 2008 Comments (1)

Today’s blogging tips looks at trackbacks and how they can help to increase your inbound links. Trackbacks are really just a notification. If you write a post that references another site, you can include the trackback URL in the trackbacks feature of your WordPress blog (other platforms such as Drupal have similar features available).

Once you write your post, including the link to another post on another site, you enter the trackback URL. Once you publish your post the trackback feature sends a small excerpt to that site advising them that they have been linked to. The advice appears as a comment for the linked post.

If the blog owner approves your trackback, it effectively becomes a comment with a link back to your post. Link to three posts with trackbacks enabled and you should receive three links back. Naturally, you don’t want to use trackbacks as spam, however where your posts are related then the links will be relevant.

Trackbacks can be found below the editing window. Some blogs provide a trackback URL – use this in the trackback window – if you have more than one, separate each trackback with a space. Hit publish and the trackbacks are sent.

This is an easy feature to use and used judiciously, can deliver some nice links back to your own site.

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