Use Pingback/Trackback To Get More Links And Contents For Your Blog
This post is about how to use pingback/trackback to get more links and contents for your blog.If you have a blog, you probably have 2 important things to ‘worry’ about.
1) Finding/writing quality content to post to your blog
2) Getting quality links to your blog
Here’s a proposal on how you can have both at the same time!
The idea is to use the pingback/trackback feature that comes with a WordPress blog.
Here’s a typical scenario:
- Person A writes something on her blog.
- You read her blog and have some afterthought.
- You blog about your thought in your own blog (hence more content for your blog).
- You either pingback or send a trackback to Person A’s blog
- Person A’s blog receives the pingback/trackback and displays it as a comment to the original post, linking it back to your blog (hence another link juice for you).
Now, for this method to work, 2 things must be ready:
1) Person A’s blog must allow trackback and pingback
2) Ideally, person A’s blog sets “DoFollow” for her trackback and pingback.
How to know if a blog allows trackback and pingback?
Simple, just check out the blog and see if there’s any trackback or pingback links. They are either in the comments section or a section on its own.
How to know if the trackback/pingback has “DoFollow”?
If you use Firefox, you can install a plugin called SEO For Firefox. The plugin will highlight links with “NoFollow”. Any link without “NoFollow” is “DoFollow”.
How to create a pingback or trackback?
1) First, it should be enabled in your wordpress blog. You can do that by logging into Options » Discussion – and making sure there is a check mark next to Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.).
2) Next, write a post and link back to the original post.
In most cases, Pingback will happen automatically and there is no need for you to send any trackback.
A note on “DoFollow” trackback and pingback
WordPress blog, by default, has “NoFollow” trackback/pingback link. If you own a blog and would like to advocate “DoFollow” for trackback and pingback, you can install Dofollow Trackbacks Plugin.
If you decide to do that, write a comment below to let our readers know you advocate “DoFollow” on your blog. Who knows, some readers may decide to read your blog and pingback to your blog
