Use trackbacks to give your traffic a boost

A couple of days ago I wrote a post giving you a couple good references to use if you want to start to monetize your blog, well, today let’s take a quick look at one easy way that you can actually start to pull some extra traffic into your blog…. by using trackbacks.

Using trackbacks is something that a good friend of mine recently suggested I start to try, and I must say that I have seen some extra traffic already starting to come into my blog from the few trackbacks I have given over the past week. He also has some other nice tips for anyone using wordpress as your blogging platform. Check out his site for a nice list of useful wordpress tools that will really give your blog a boost.

Coming from a background where I have been blogging for a major site, bloggingstocks, I have never really had to think about gaining traffic, I have only had to focus on actual content, so actually trying to build traffic is challenge that I look forward to learning.

Regardless, my friend suggested that I start to cite other people’s blogs that I like using trackbacks and in return could not only boost my quality of writing, but also give my site a little extra traffic. Well, obviously, as I have learned, this is a very widespread tactic that a lot of successful bloggers use, and I found a great example of another blogger writing about his experience on balkhis.com where he showed a couple instances where using trackbacks really led to some good traffic for his blog.

Basically, when you come across a good blog article that you like, be sure to cite the post, but look for the trackback link and use that as your link to the cite to get your blog post listed in their comments. In many cases wordpress is smart enough to give you the trackback even if you use the regular url of the post, but to be safe always look for the trackback link at the end of the post and use that.

It is a good technique to help build up your blogs readership, and gives you a little more authority. Hope you found this post useful, if so, be sure to take my advice and trackback to this post

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