http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success/ No really, it's about nothing Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:20:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success/comment-page-1/#comment-40540 garfield Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:45:41 +0000 http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success#comment-40540 Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

]]> http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success/comment-page-1/#comment-657 Pinging Your Blogs to Search Engines: How Linking to Blogs Can Increase your Traffic Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:36:21 +0000 http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success#comment-657 [...] Things change pretty fast on the web, and this is especially the case with the blogosphere. If you're a blogger, you probably want to know how to increase your traffic, get more readers, sell more stuff, etc. One often overlooked feature of blogs that can instantly send a wave of traffic your way is called "trackbacks" or "pingbacks".First, what exactly is a trackback? A trackback is a link in the comments area of a blog, indicating that another blog is talking about it. For example, when you post a blog article, another user may find it interesting and link to it from his own blog. That's great, because you've just received an inbound link. As a bonus, if your blog supports trackbacks or pingbacks, your site will automatically link to his article too. Think of it as an ego boost saying "Look at all these people linking to my article".So how can this turn into a windfall of traffic for you? It's becoming a common tactic for people to race to be the first to post a comment on a popular blog. The first to post gets seen by the most readers, and thus gets the most traffic. But with trackbacks, it becomes a lot easier. You can post an article on your blog and then search for relevant blogs under the same topic. Add links in your post to the blogs you've found and reference their material. Finally, submit a trackback (your blog software may do this automatically when you link to them, otherwise you can use tools such as TrackbackSpeed and others), and you'll instantly create a relation between your blogs.As an added bonus, trackbacks and pingbacks not only get you eyeballs from readers of the blogs you've linked to, but some search engines also factor this into page rank calculations. Of course, the best part about trackbacks and pingbacks is that both parties benefit by a link and share readers. They also help make it easier to find related content.There's also plenty of chatter from other bloggers on how to safely use trackbacks and pingbacks, here's just a sample:Don’t Trackback. Use Pingback : WordPress Profithowtomarketyourstuff.com » Blog Archive » Trackback, Pingbac..Blogging for Business: Search engine benefits of trackbacks, pingbacks, and..Deciding whether to use a trackback or a commentCountries in colors » Blog Archive » Beginners’ web: h..Blogurple-The News Blog » What Are Trackbacks and How Do I Use Them?Freaklamp Dot Com » Blog Archive » Publicize Your Site and I..Using Pingbacks And Trackbacks With WordpressHow to use trackback links » zated.com » blogging/marketing/rev..Blog Definitions: Common Terms of the BlogosphereTrackbacks and Pingbacks Scraps Of MindGet Traffic with Trackbacks Super Blogginghttp://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success [...] [...] Things change pretty fast on the web, and this is especially the case with the blogosphere. If you’re a blogger, you probably want to know how to increase your traffic, get more readers, sell more stuff, etc. One often overlooked feature of blogs that can instantly send a wave of traffic your way is called “trackbacks” or “pingbacks”.First, what exactly is a trackback? A trackback is a link in the comments area of a blog, indicating that another blog is talking about it. For example, when you post a blog article, another user may find it interesting and link to it from his own blog. That’s great, because you’ve just received an inbound link. As a bonus, if your blog supports trackbacks or pingbacks, your site will automatically link to his article too. Think of it as an ego boost saying “Look at all these people linking to my article”.So how can this turn into a windfall of traffic for you? It’s becoming a common tactic for people to race to be the first to post a comment on a popular blog. The first to post gets seen by the most readers, and thus gets the most traffic. But with trackbacks, it becomes a lot easier. You can post an article on your blog and then search for relevant blogs under the same topic. Add links in your post to the blogs you’ve found and reference their material. Finally, submit a trackback (your blog software may do this automatically when you link to them, otherwise you can use tools such as TrackbackSpeed and others), and you’ll instantly create a relation between your blogs.As an added bonus, trackbacks and pingbacks not only get you eyeballs from readers of the blogs you’ve linked to, but some search engines also factor this into page rank calculations. Of course, the best part about trackbacks and pingbacks is that both parties benefit by a link and share readers. They also help make it easier to find related content.There’s also plenty of chatter from other bloggers on how to safely use trackbacks and pingbacks, here’s just a sample:Don’t Trackback. Use Pingback : WordPress Profithowtomarketyourstuff.com » Blog Archive » Trackback, Pingbac..Blogging for Business: Search engine benefits of trackbacks, pingbacks, and..Deciding whether to use a trackback or a commentCountries in colors » Blog Archive » Beginners’ web: h..Blogurple-The News Blog » What Are Trackbacks and How Do I Use Them?Freaklamp Dot Com » Blog Archive » Publicize Your Site and I..Using Pingbacks And Trackbacks With WordpressHow to use trackback links » zated.com » blogging/marketing/rev..Blog Definitions: Common Terms of the BlogosphereTrackbacks and Pingbacks Scraps Of MindGet Traffic with Trackbacks Super Blogginghttp://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success [...]

]]> http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success/comment-page-1/#comment-331 A Blog about Nothing Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:28:43 +0000 http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success#comment-331 Thanks Spiff. I have an article upcoming that might give you a few ideas. Thanks Spiff. I have an article upcoming that might give you a few ideas.

]]> http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success/comment-page-1/#comment-330 - Spaceman Spiff - Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:23:00 +0000 http://www.ablogaboutnothing.com/5-tips-for-riding-the-wave-of-success#comment-330 Good post. I just wish I knew how to put it all into practice. It is so hard to leverage certain types of traffic and social bookmarking traffic is the worst. Just my luck that most of my traffic is from social bookmarking sites. Good post. I just wish I knew how to put it all into practice. It is so hard to leverage certain types of traffic and social bookmarking traffic is the worst. Just my luck that most of my traffic is from social bookmarking sites.

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