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Continuing on from part one of this post (you can read part 1 of Viral Marketing Examples (Tips & Tricks Too) here - it will open in a new window for your convenience) I wanted to show you a marketer who has created a piece of software that will allow your wordpress blog posts to go viral as well as providing you with an ‘all too precious’ one way link, using trackbacks.

I don’t know about you, but I love reading blogs, especially ones related to wordpress. My problem is I come across something interesting and don’t just read the articles, but all the comments and trackbacks too. I find it very interesting to see who is also reading the posts and what they are writing about on their own blogs. To the people who left the comment or trackback I am a visitor that has come from something they found interesting or wrote about, so am much more likely to stay a while on their site or blog than someone who found them by accident.

Jack Humphrey, you may know his name from ‘Content Desk’ or the ‘Black Book’, is about to release a piece of software, which I think is desktop based from the video on his blog post about it (click here to read it - it will open in a new window for your convenience) which will find for you blogs with similar posts to yours that allow trackbacks. You know how I love time savers. The software will also allow you to edit your posts from it in order to add the links, again saving you time.

This is not a ‘normal’ viral marketing example, but most blog readers are like me, especially in niche markets as they are there to read more about the thinkgs they like and enjoy. Imagine having even three trackbacks on three different blogs in your niche, coming back to your website. If it is a high pr blog you may even move up the SERP’s, but most importantly if it is a high traffic blog you may benefit from their traffic. More traffic = more sales. So anything that can bring you more traffic is a form of viral marketing.

If you would like to post a trackback to someone’s blog, but cannot find the trackback link you should just try to add /trackback/ to the end of the url, so in the case of this post the trackback url would be http://www.onthenetdollars.com/general/viral-marketing-examples-part-2/trackback/. This will only work if the wordpress blog owner has allowed trackbacks. If you would like to allow trackbacks on your blog you can read my post on it … Trackbacks & Time Wasted, where you will also find how to add make the trackback url show up on your blog if it is not included in your template already.

Please let me know what you think by leaving your comments for me