{"id":347,"date":"2009-03-02T19:51:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juust.org\/?p=347"},"modified":"2020-06-12T21:34:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T19:34:01","slug":"trackbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juust.org\/index.php\/trackbacks\/2009\/03\/","title":{"rendered":"trackbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trackbacks are brilliant stuff. I programmed a trackback module into the trends<\/em> script yesterday just to see what it yields. As long as you don’t use it to spam and stick to common standards, it’s the fastest deep link building method available. I noticed another trends<\/em> script is also using trackbacks.<\/p>\n

GTrends lists an average 600 different searches per day, that makes 200K pages a year. If you put five blog excerpts with a link on a page you have 1000K backlink opportunities a year, automated, if you use trackbacks.<\/p>\n

I got 50% success rate in the first tests, so I put it on a cronjob and it seems to level out at 30% successful links. That seemed a bit much, so I checked the PingCrawl plugin<\/a> Eli (bluehatseo) and joshteam<\/a> put together for WordPress. They claim a 80% success rate using Eli’s result scraper, I guess 30% is not aberrant.<\/p>\n

For trends, I can’t narrow my search down too much. I need the most recent blogs for the trends buzz. Too narrow searches might exclude the recent news and the script would lose it’s usability. Besides, I figure 10% trackbacks would already be more than enough, a few hundred lines of code with a css template for 100K backlinks a year ain’t bad.<\/p>\n

I don’t actually have anything to blog about today, so that’s it.<\/p>\n

[added 3-3] ****ing brilliant, 65% trackbacks are accepted, increasing traffic, bots come crawling, finally something that works. Now add proxies.<\/p>\n

[added 3-3] bozo style “the script got 4 uniques yesterday!”<\/p>\n

Can I be honest ? Dude over at seounderworld<\/a> gave me a vote of confidence on the trends script and I felt embarrased as the demo looks like shit and didn’t do anything. For scraper basics fine, but it lacked seo potential.<\/p>\n

So I added some CSS, validated the source, added caching, gzip, rss-feed, sitemap, and the trackback module. It got 300 uniques yesterday and 400 uniques this morning on its first day out, so it performs better now and I don’t feel so embarrassed anymore.<\/p>\n

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(nice impression of the trends audience by the way)<\/p>\n

I’ll add some proxies to prevent bans and some other stuff, once that’s done I’ll refresh the download.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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