Well, i don’t really consider this a link building technique but it sure does get me some exposure from bigger blogs, see the thing is trackbacks usually show up on the very top of the post page as noted in the image on the right, and the comments come in the picture afterwards, but i choose to blog about it rather then comment on a blog is because this way i get content,traffic and more indexed pages as well as be more interactive with my target traffic, now this does not mean you should go around spamming every big blog on the net, if you think you can right a relevant and useful post to anything that you are interested in on a big blog then go for it and use a track back.
For example, techcrunch talked about pixsy the power search engine, i think its just spam because they are listing all the searches made as asp pages, in other words making them look like static pages with keywords so sooner or later it will be spamming google very nicely, i like the concept though leaving out content search and focusing on images and videos only that was a nice move to lengthen their life span in google.
Now back to the topic, using trackbacks is a better way of commenting a post in my opinion as you can comment and get more content to your own site as well not to mention that it gives you a wider genre.
The usual blogger dilemma is the current trend, nobody knows what to talk about in their blogs in order to stay fresh, using trackbacks gets you that edge since you are not just making spam but you are giving your opinion on a certain matter already blogged about in other blogs, but always be sure to be relevant to the original post and/or make a better post, anything below average is unacceptable because that would make your blog look nothing more then just spam, most inner pages on this blog do have backlinks from techcrunch but if you do go looking through my backlinks you’ll realize that the posts that DO have those backlinks are either better then the one on techcrunch and/or are my opinion on the matter that got some decent traffic or diggs.
Every one wants to know all sides of a story, so if a bigger blog is taking one side and you feel differently about the matter, then you have something to roll with there, its like debating but not face-to-face, it creates a healthier envoirnment.
- Bigger blogs get deep links.
- Useful content made on both ends.
- Both share traffic with each other.
October 29th, 2007 at 5:14 am
I think this can be applied to forums as well. I assume that there are mods that do this same thing for other CMS’.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Really sad that Blogger doesn’t work with Trackbacks. Kinda sad that such a big blogging platoform doesn’t offer this tool to all it’s bloggers. Agree that having trackbacks is a super advantage in a bloggers overall seo campaign.
March 12th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Don’t you hate spam to?