Ok, so in the previous post, “SEO Linking (to yourself)“, I explain about how a good link contains relevant text.
Another nice way of linking is using “trackbacks”. Here’s a definition according to the Wikipedia:
TrackBack is a mechanism for the communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack ping”; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry. This allows for conversations spanning several blogs that readers can easily follow.
In simple english, if you comment ABOUT someone else’s post in your post, and you have a link to this post, the other blog should display this as a trackback, as well as displaying a short summary of what you’ve written.
Believe me, this is a VERY good way to get visitors to your site. If your post title is intriguing, and your summary interesting, you might see quite an influx of visitors.
Now, how to get these visitors to stay………???