Why need to Trackback and How to Trackback

Why need to Trackback ?

• It brings more targeted traffic to your site, and continuously increase your number of loyal blog readers.
• It create high quality(content related and high ranking) incoming links and (posibility)increase your site ranking in search engines.
• It share your ideas on the topic with the website author.

How to TrackBack ?

Here is what I do to increase traffic and attract targeted BLOG readers.

1. I search Google for the keywords of each post. Example:
   

   trackback keyword1 keyword2 keywordN…

2. Google will return a list of search result. Note, these are high ranking websites that (posibility) allow trackback from your blog.
3. Select most revelant(to your post) from the list, visit them and find out the trackback link (normally at end of the post, either in a link format or a URL string). Copy the trackback link.
4. Turn back to your post and edit it. Trackback the copied link from your blog.

   For Wordpress user, scroll down to “Send trackbacks to:” and paste the copied trackback link(multiple URLs allowed). Click “Save”. It will take some time to trackback the links, be patient.
   
   For BlogSpot.com user, you need to register Free Haloscan account and send trackback link from there.
   

5. Done. You get links back from high ranking and relevant websites to your post.

Implement Trackback function in BlogSpot.com - using Haloscan

During last post, i did mentioned about increase your BLOG traffic by using the trackback function to others high trafficked BLOG. In order to use this function, you have to use WordPress. But if you are using free BLOG service provider such as Blogger.com or BlogSpot.com, then you need alternative way to implement trackback, because Blogger.com or BlogSpot.com have not provide trackback function yet!

Actually Liewcf.com had mentioned in his BLOG on why we need to trackback and how to use trackback in more effective way. Amanda, a mom of 2 kids also mentioned on how to use Haloscan in Blogger.com, but what she write is on OLD Blogger.com. I would like to review the technique in latest Blogger.com or BlogSpot.com

1. Goto Haloscan and register a FREE account

2. Login to Haloscan and click on "Install" button as shown below:


3. Follow BLOggER Installation Wizard instruction 1


4. Follow BLOggER Installation Wizard instruction 2

5. You're done ! Refer back to your BLOG and you will see the "trackback" link is just right after the comments link. This trackback link is to allow other bloggers link to your post.

6. To increase your BLOG traffic, you need to trackback your post to other bloggers post. Click on "Manage Comments" in Haloscan, then click "Send a Trackback Ping". After key in your necessary BLOG info, click on "Send Pings".


7. Well done ! Your BLOG is expose for more traffic NOW :)

10 tips to increase BLOG traffic effectively

Liewcf.com has a list of tricks to increasing blog traffic. He calls it as “10 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic“. Here is the excerpt.

1. Claim your blog at Technorati like services.
2. Pinging Pingoat or Ping-O-Matic.
3. Use FeedBurner for feed publishing.
4. Bookmark every article at del.icio.us.
5. Use extensive tagging and keywording inside your articles and on services like del.icio.us.
6. Trackback, if you write about another blog or linking to other blogs.
7. Use Flickr for your photos. Link to the articles in your Flickr descriptions. Don’t forget to tag your photos.
8. Always ask permission before you use other people’s pictures. After publishing the picture, add a comment to the photo used (e.g Flickr photo) with a link to your article.
9. If you are linking to somebody, send them an email about your link. Ask them to inform you if they have something interesting for you to blog about.
10. Add a link to a keyword in Wikipedia whenever possible.

I just try out the steps above on last Friday except Flickr for photo hosting because i am using blogger.com service, it's easier to upload photo directly. I can see that my blog's traffic is increasing and hopefully can boost up to 1100 visitors before end of this month Aug 2007.

For BLOggERs that using blogger.com or blogspot.com, the service provider not support trackback function yet, but you can using another plugin service provider called Haloscan. See how to register and install Haloscan for your free blogspot.com to boost up your BLOG traffic.