Using Trackbacks to Build Your Blog Readership

[mandy]

You’ve no doubt heard that building relationships is critical to building your blog readership. One often-neglected way to do that is to use trackbacks to others’ blogs and enable them on your own.

What is a trackback?

A trackback allows a link from your blog to be registered as a comment on another’s blog, and vice versa. For example, if one of your readers writes about one of your posts, she can also use a trackback to your post. In that case, your blog will show a comment with an excerpt from her post and a link to it. Of course, you have to have trackbacks enabled...

full article: http://cornerscribe.com/wordpress/2007/0...community/

[Kristijntje]

A related article:

Summary: TrackBacks automate the interlinking of blog posts, but often don’t contribute to search engine ranking...

With the introduction of the ‘no follow’ attribute, links in comments and TrackBacks are usually often not included in the calculation of your blog’s Google PageRank. I presume this applies to the other search engines as well. Still, the findability may not be in the search ranking - but links from other blogs is always a Good Thing...

full article: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/...rackbacks/