Make Your Mark with Trackbacks

Yesterday I mentioned about a nice Wordpress Review Plugin that can easily help you create numerous review sites for products & services.

Sometimes it can be difficult getting backlinks to these types of sites. Especially to the dedicated product review pages & many people completely overlook the power of Trackbacks in Wordpress.

A trackback basically places a link on another site letting them know you’ve mentioned their post or your post is related to theirs. The good thing about a trackback is that it’s almost as good as a free link.

I’m not going to get into the discussion of “but most trackbacks are rel=nofollow” because I can tell you now, trackbacks DO help you rank & DO help you get indexed quickly.

Eli at Bluehatseo showed me some proof last week that you can get a whole 178 page site indexed in 2 days from using trackbacks only & I’ve seen the benefits myself.

Anyway, if I’m reviewing a product or service I’ll normally fire the keywords into Comment hut (if you’re cheap you can just use Google Search or Blog Search). I usually use all three because it allows me a greater depth of search. I’ll grab all of the URL’s & sort them by pagerank & relevancy (talk about the same product or service I’m posting about). I’ll then trim the list down to anywhere from 5-20 blogs.

Then I’ll grab all the trackback URL’s from the blogs & put them in the trackback section in the post in Wordpress. Whenever I hit publish there’s automatically instant links on anywhere from 5-20 sites that are relevant to my content.

Some webmasters do delete trackbacks, I know I do if they’re spammy. But if you’re writing good articles with good content most Webmasters will actually be flattered to get a trackback, as they think you’re “citing” them.

Quite often I’ll also get the other webmaster even signing up to my RSS Feed or becoming a regular reader of the blog when they notice the trackback, so there’s other advantages to making sure you utilise this technique more often.

A great example of a post that would kill trackbacks would be something like “The Top 500 Wordpress Themes ever released” then submit a trackback to every single wordpress theme release page. It’d take time to put together but you can see where I’m heading with this post. Be Creative!