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I've mentioned this in the past and it's not anything new but a lot people put links to related blog posts at the end of their posts. Why? Because with a bit of luck, they will get a link back from the post they link to, over to theirs. If the author of the post you are linking to approves the trackback then a link will be created within the comment area with a link back to your post, often using the title of your post.

As you may know, Market Samurai has a feature that allows you to gather links for trackbacks based on a particular keyword. It's a cool feature and I've spoken highly of it before. But while using it I actually didn't get worthwhile results a lot of the time. Sometimes the results weren't even blogs at all. I just figured, not knowing any better, that I saved a bunch of time from doing it manually even if I didn't get anything back worthwhile...I figured the result would've been the same doing it any other way...this way is just quicker. Well, I was mistaken.

Don't get me wrong, Market Samurai is a great product. The trackback feature is kind of just a sub feature of a sub feature so to speak, so it's not a big deal to me if it doesn't work the way I had hoped. The rest of the features more than make up for it. Anyway, I recently won a software package called Trackboost. It is used solely for gathering trackbacks for backlinks. I tested it for the heck of it even though I thought I had the only software that I needed for trackbacks. Here's how it works...

It connects to your blog through XML-RPC (turn it on from Settings->Writing) and downloads your last 10 posts by default.

You click the title of the one that you want to work with and it will show the post in the bottom frame.

You move to the next screen and enter keywords to find related posts. Several blog posts will show up, I think it's 20 by default. And the results are often right on! When compared to Market Samurai for some of the same keywords I get a much better result set with Trackboost.

Now you click the title of one and you are able to see the post in the bottom frame, as well as the PR of the main page, the Alexa rank, etc. Checkmark the ones that you want to include in the related info section of your posts.

Now on the next screen you will see a WYSIWYG editor with your post in it and off to the right side will be the HTML for you list of links with summaries. You can choose things like No-follow, unordered list, table, etc. You can then copy and paste the list over to your post and click Publish. I use the Trackboost publish feature with caution though...it rewrites your post slug which isn't always desirable. If you customized your post slug so that it doesn't match the title, this software will "fix" it, thus making a broken link for the post if it has already been indexed. Usually I just grab the HTML and paste it over to my blog and Save the post form there.

After that, you want the spiders to come to gobble up the updates. 2 screens over is a customizable list of sites you can ping to start sending spiders to your post. It will use the original URL so if you let Trackboost publish your post and it changed the URL you will be pinging a 404. I emailed the programmer to fix that bug. However, he hasn't got back to me yet.

The screen in between the publish screen and the ping screen is a screen you can come back to later to see if your trackbacks have been published. It checks the other blogs to see if the author approved the trackback, in essence, if you've got your backlink. Really cool...and super fast. It is a very good tool when used properly.

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