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If you haven’t done so already, you should submit your site to Alltop now.  An Alltop news feed is like your digital online magazine rack and is one of Guy Kawasaki’s start-up projects.  When you submit your site, you are importing your latest 5 headlines under an existing topic.  Depending on factors such as your content, twitter recommendations, etc., the drones over at Alltop gets to decide the final topic where your feed will be categorized under.

Alltop is great because you know that the blogs and sites are updated frequently.  Actually, any blogs not updated in 28 days will have their feeds removed from the list.  The feeds at the top are normally the most popular and reputable blogs that Alltop deems as most important.

10 Ways How Alltop Powers Bloggers

Chris Brogan wrote a great post about how you can use Alltop as a blogger.  Here’s an excerpt of the first 4 ways from Chris’ article:

1. Keep track of what your competitors are writing about. Alltop displays the last five stories of over one-hundred sites and blogs for topics ranging from adoption to zoology with 400 topics in between>

2. Examine the site design of bloggers in your category by clicking through on headlines and seeing their sites. For example, if you’re a mommy blogger, you can see what hundreds of mommy blogs look like at Moms.alltop.

3. Get more traffic by getting added to an Alltop topic. Go here to sign up.

4.Grab blogging tips by reading what expert bloggers like CopyBlogger and ProBlogger are saying at Blogging.alltop.

I submitted my blog a few days ago and just left it in their hands for approval.  I was checking my stats one day and noticed a few visits came from http://blogging.alltop.com/.  I scrolled all the way to the bottom and noticed my Alltop news feed was listed!  I know it’s at the very bottom, but then again, my blog’s just a few months old.  :)

If you don’t find any use in submitting your blog to Alltop (don’t know why you would think that), then at least it’s a great way to find related blogs in your niche and add them in your rss reader.

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About a week ago I decided to see if I could get an increase in traffic through trackback  marketing.  This case study answered a lot of questions I had about the methods of using trackbacks to get readers to your blog.  Although my results weren’t substantial, I’m not going to rule out it’s effectiveness on building traffic.  There was only a few clicks (not even double digits!!)  this entire week from trackbacks.   Yes, it’s low.  Here’s a few things I learned from this little experiment of mine:

  1. Find The Big Boys – Look for higher ranked blog with decent traffic.  My main problem was linking to lower traffic blogs because I thought it was easier to distinguish my trackback if there was little competition.
  2. Consistency – Find a blog that not only accepts trackbacks, but is also updated on a consistent basis.  There’s no point in sending a trackback link to your site on a stale blog.
  3. Catchy Title – It’s important to make your trackback stand out from the rest by adding a catchy title to lure readers to your site like this.

So do trackbacks work? Yes.  If you find the right blog, trackbacks will be another great  source of referral traffic to your blog.  Although I did do something that was very effective in bringing me a decent amount of traffic, but that’s a future post write up of mine.  ;)

So what’s worked for you?  Would love to hear some of your tips on trackback marketing in the comment section below!

Tags: blog, Business, Case study, marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Promotion, trackback

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