Posts Tagged ‘Trackbacks’
I Want To Learn About Link Building
November 27th, 2008 | 
Author: John signed up at IMMembership.com yesterday and said he wanted to know more about link building, so I decided to answer him as fully as I can today.
Firstly before any sort of link building is done you need to have a website with content. This can also be an affiliate link redirect, but I would always use some form of content.
Now this man John used an e-mail that was from a domain he owned, so I went along to have a look. I wanted to see if I could get some background on him, but the site is just a fresh wordpress installation. I had a look using the way back machine as the domain is well over 4 years old, but there is nothing but a holding page to see.
There is something holding this man back from building a site and in most cases this is either that the person is chasing the next ‘greatest thing’ or they are worrying over building the best site in the world.
START TODAY. Get something up on the site, even if it a ‘I don’t know where to start, but I will’ kind of thing 
Now once you have something on your site you can start building links. Below is a list of how to do build links, in no particular order. You will no doubt have seen this list before, but if you don’t do them you will not get backlinks. People always seem to think there is something missing and 99.9% of the tilme there is … they do not take action.
1) Social bookmarking - use a keyword rich title, description and as many tags/keywords as you can. Varying your title and description will help too.
2) Article Marketing - Completely unique articles will do the best, but If you are no good at writing you can just write one unique article and spin/re-write it to be about 40% unique (although the more unique the better) and submit it to the article directories. You can check the uniqueness for free at Dupecop.
3) Submit your RSS feed to the RSS Directories - if you have a html or php or asp site and are not using a blogging platform like wordpress that gives you a feed automatically visit Dapper.net and get an rss feed.
4) Trackback - this is only relevant to wordpress users, but if you link to another wordpress users blog post and they have trackbacks enabled they will see the post you made the next time they log into their dashboard and can approve or not approve it like a comment. Most people approve these trackbacks giving you a relevant backlink.
Now this list of 4 ways is not in any way exhaustive. You can also comment on other people’s blogs and post in forums with a link in your signature to your site. Like I have said more than once the most important thing is to start and once you have a few links in forums and on other people’s blogs and in the social sites other people will start to link to you too, if your content is worth linking to of course
A great example is at the end of this post there is a link with the title ‘Related articles by Zemanta’. Zemanta is a firefox add on that integrates with your wordpress dashboard. It might integrate with blogger too, I’m not sure. Anyway the link below was a suggestion from them on related content to what I am writing about in this post. Now the guy who wrote the article on the link missed out any links to his website in his article which completely defeats the object of article writing, but it still proves my point. People CAN and WILL find your website and use your content if you put it out there.
So get to it. Create 10 links to your site every day in the hope to get 4 and after a month you could have as many as 300 backlinks meaning you would beat most of your competition out of the water.
Let me know what you do to get backlinks or if you have had success doing the above. I love to hear from you.
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Viral Marketing Examples (Tips & Tricks Too) - Part 2
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
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Tags: Blogging, Blogs, Build Links, Niche, Trackback, Trackbacks, Traffic, Viral Marketing, Weblogs | 
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Trackbacks And Time Wasted
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Today I lost over two hours worth of my precious working time trying to figure out why my trackback links were not showing up at anywhere in my posts.
I looked all around my Wordpress dashboard, I went to the Wordpress forums, I searched google, but no luck (well at least not at first). I found lots of information on trackbacks themselves … what are they, how do they work, how do they benefit you etc…, but nothing on how to get them to show up.
In your dashboard uder settings and discussion you just need to tick the box next to ‘Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)’ and you should be set to go, but this did not work for me.
Finally someone responded to me on the Wordpress forum and asked me if a small piece of code was in my single.php. I looked and sure enough it was not there …….. aaaagggghhhh.
I added the snippet of code to my single.php where I wanted my trackback link to show, uploaded it and it worked first time. I was relieved, but frustrated at the amount of time it had taken me to fix it.
The theme I am using is from someone who has created over 50 themes, so I presumed his would be good and I liked the layout etc… I have not looked at his other themes in too much detail, but as I go through this one making my tweaks I notice more and more simple errors like having the closing </body> and </html> codes before the footer is called. This is bad news for people who have no knowledge of php at all, it looks more like mumbo jumbo that html, as they would find it much harder to add the code, let alone know where to add it.
I will ensure that all my themes and compliant with the necessary standards and are marked for people to be able to change things should they need/want to.
In case this is also a problem for you and your trackbacks are not showing in your theme, you need to add the following piece of code to your single.php where you want the trackback url to show up …
<a href=”<?php trackback_url(); ?>” rel=”trackback”>Trackback</a>
If for some reason you do not have a single.php please refer to the tutorial on ‘How To Create Missing Files For Your Wordpress Theme‘.
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Tags: Blog, Forum, Forums, On the Web, Theme, Time, Tools, Trackback, Trackbacks, Wordpress |
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