Trackbacks and Comments: Free and Easy Ways To Get Links
Something that most bloggers always forget are the power of trackbacks (or otherwise commonly known as pingbacks) and comments. Yes, both can help with blog traffic, but they actually do more for you than just that. In fact, commenting on other blogs and setting up a quick trackback to a URL can give you free links. With these links, you can easily boost your Technorati ranking as well as traffic. I will show you how to start increasing your links, but before that, here is a brief overview of what trackbacks and comments are.
Trackbacks
When properly used, trackbacks/pingbacks is like commenting without exactly…commenting. A trackback, by definition, is “a way to notify a website or blog when linking to one of their documents”. This gives the authors to keep track of who is linking to them as well as who is properly referencing their articles.
Comments
Ah. This is something that makes a blogger successful outside of their own blog. By commenting on other websites, a blogger is exposing themselves with the discussions they are participating plus a link that identifies you. Commenting is so easy that you can actually get more backlinks just by participating in blog discussions or stopping by to say hi. Some people don’t do this because they are either (a) lazy, or (b) don’t think that they are worth-less. But like I said, if you are looking for new ways to get free links to your site, you might want to start commenting and setting up trackbacks. Here’s how:
- Since you actually only get free links from do-follow blogs, it’s important that you make sure that the blogs don’t have the “no-follow” system for the links. I’m not trying to say that you should only comment or trackback on blogs that do-follow, but I’m only saying it for this article’s purposes. Anyway, here is a list of all (most) of the blogs that have the no-follow link disabled from their comment system: from Courtney Tuttle, the D-List.
- Post a valid, high-quality comment on any (of all) of those blogs that are on that list.
- If you notice that you have linked to any of those links in the past, go set up a trackback/pingback!
That’s it!
By constantly commenting and pinging back on many different blogs every day, you can get hundreds of free links in no time. With the time it usually takes you to get a link from another blog in one day, you can get up 20 links just by commenting on other blogs. But remember, you don’t just comment to get links; you do it to participate in their discussions. This is one simple step that will help you become a successful blogger.
