One of the things I love is tracking where my visitors come from so I know what is driving my traffic. It helps me to understand what is working and what is not.
Now I use both Google Analytics and for blogs My BlogLog. Was there today as usual (yes I am always checking stats a bad habit - NOT unless you use that as an excuse not to do what needs to be done) and noticed something.
The other day AWeber announced their new feature that allows you to tweet your email broadcasts automatically. Relatively simple even for an Old Bald Guy like me.
So………
I wrote about it as soon as I saw it and tracked back to their blog from another blog of mine as it fit what I had been writing about at Three Turtle Marketing.
Because I was doing this very shortly after they announced this on their blog it ended up as the 5th comment on their blog. So now I am getting visitors stopping over from that.
Getting out there and interacting on topics that will get a bit of play early can make a nice difference in your traffic. Are you doing it? If so how regularly?
Just a few thoughts to help you improve your traffic.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
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This question comes from one of my monthly Question and Answer sessions.
This answer will be specific to WordPress blogs because different platforms handle this in different ways.
With WordPress it is quite easy to do.
1. Log in to your dashboard.
2. Click options - discussion
3. The second check box down will say
“Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.) ”
Make sure that is checked and click update.
That is all that it will take to enable trackbacks on your blog and is set to accept by default.
As always your questions and comments are appreciated.
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You should first make sure that you have enabled trackbacks on your blog. You will find it under Options - Discussion.
Depending on your theme it may show trackbacks or it may require a plugin.
THere are also plugins that validate trackbacks to eliminate one of the problems. Trackback spam.
A quick Google search will show you options for both.
