Use Trackback to Increase Targeted Traffic
For Google Adsense, you won’t earn much if you do not have enough site traffic, even you have good ads layout, good ads placement and highly targeted ads. I have a tip to increase your blog traffic by using TrackBack.
Trackback: “…allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.”
How?
Here is what I do to increase traffic and attract targeted blog readers.
- At the end of the week, I create a list of weekly highlights.
- Then, I search Google for the keywords of each post. Example:
trackback keyword1 keyword2 keywordN…
- As usual, Google will return a list of search result. Note, these are high ranking websites that (posibility) allow trackback from your blog.
- 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.
- 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.
- Done. You get links back from high ranking and relevant websites to your post.
What are the benefits?
- It brings targeted traffic to your site, and posibility 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.
Hey! This is trackback spam!
No, it is not. I strongly against sending trackback blindly (read: trackback spam)! Unlike trackback spam, I only send my trackbacks to selected websites that are related to my post.
Proof?
I got traffic increased, more blog readers, more incoming links and getting more people know about my blog. Of course, increased traffic caused increased Google Adsense income. ;)
By the way, you can use this tip to increase your site traffic even you are not target to earn money from your website. It is an easy way to let the world know about your website!
Hope you find this tip useful. Let me know what do you think in the comment. Make sure you checkout other online revenue tips too!
Greetings, Liew!
I’ve recently started this trick and indeed I got neat results. But this Weekly Headlines thing sounds really interesting! I’ll try it on my blog =)
By the way, I read your blog constantly. Keep up the good work!
thanks for the trackback advice and I want to let you know that a trackback service is now available from The Blogger called HALOSCAN. (automatic installation for The Blogger users) — review it for us.
Thanks again
Personally I don’t like trackbacks on my site unless its an entry talking about me.
Man, I don’t know what the hell you are talking about but I’m certainly putting this in my archived folders in my hard disk so that I can read it again when I have learnt the art of the dark forces that you have obviously mastered.
I am a web programmer and have just gone into this world of blogging and online money making. It sure sounds like a dream. Making money with Google in your sleep! I’m going to read the rest of your money making related scripts.
Keep on teaching us oh great master!!
LOL~ Jimmy, please forgive my poor English. ;)
nice trick there, thanks for sharing :)
isit a spam? imo it’s considered spam because the purpose behind this is to increase site traffics instead of the real purpose of trackback. however, since it’s carefully selected, i guess it isn’t tood bad xD
i had been using trackback all along… even before i install google adsense. i use haloscan trackback as johnny 5 pointed out. i do not trackback a blog often though.
i don’t use trackbacks a lot, but after i tracked a link from this story to the source, i got like 100 new visitors, all in 1 day. Seems to work fine, as long as you trackback highly visited sites.
oh and i didn’t trackback to get more visitor, i just though it would be nice for the autor to know about more stories made form his article.
Most webloggers expect that if you send them a trackback, you do so when you have PROVIDED A LINK TO THEIR BLOG. Otherwise, it comes off as spam to most of us. Do this often and you’ll likely get your domain banned on most blogs, because all you’re doing is mooching traffic without sharing. I didn’t make this up–it’s how most bloggers feel.
For now I’ve put this blog–indeed, this entire domain name–in my “banned” list. I also fully expect this comment will probably be deleted. If I am mistaken please let me know.
Thank you for your advice, Dean Esmay. I will think twice before sending trackbacks. :)
yea, i forgot to say that: the thing trackbacks should be for, is some kind of link exchange, you link to your resource, and you get linked back.
Yup, I was wrong. Sorry.
It’s not that big a deal really. It would have been appropriate in this case if you’d provided actual links to the articles you sent trackbacks on. Then it’s a case if an exchange.
I wouldn’t stress over it but it’s a good point of etiquette.
Yes, this one is a good suggestion to increase targetted traffic. Will let you know if it works for my blog
Thank you for the information regarding treackbacks. I am just getting started with blogging and have been looking for an explanation of trackbacks and yours was the only one that made sense. I tried your idea and it seems to be working very nicely. Thank you!!!!
But it is difficult to find post that related to our post.