This Is How You Should Deal With Trackback Spam

Trackbacks are extremely useful for bloggers and webmasters alike when it’s used properly. When used properly, trackbacks can help facilitate communication between blogs and notify bloggers when and who has written about their content. When it’s used in bad ways, it then becomes trackback spam – on par with that of comment spam.

What Are Trackbacks?

Trackbacks basically are a linkback to someone’s else content who has linked to yours. It is used to let the blogger who receives the trackback that someone else is referencing his post and mentioning his site. Trackbacks usually appear in your comments section of your blog (it depends on what type of blogging platform you use and the theme you are using).

Trackbacks look like this:

To see a live example, check out my post here and scroll to the bottom. Note: I deleted the link in the trackback. A trackback without it’s link deleted links back to the website that links to you.

Trackback Spam?

We’ve all heard about comment spam. It’s one of the things that every single blogger would most probably know about. Comment spams usually contain lots of hyperlinks to websites that have questionable content. Comments that do not contain any sort of hyperlinks but are not related to the topic or the post are also usually looked upon as spam and thus gets moderated by the administrator (This happens at Drett)

As comment spam filters are getting increasingly complex and effective, the spammers are getting more and more desperate to find new ways to spam a site, and thus trackbacks spam is born. A person with a website with questionable content links to your post, a trackback then appears on your post which links back to his website. Thus giving him the backlink he wants and also entirely bypassing comment spam filters. Don’t mix up legitimate trackbacks with spammy tackbacks. The spammy trackbacks are where the post in which the person links to you has entirely no relation to the content in which you are writing about while the legitimate trackbacks are where the the content is related.

So What Should I Do about Trackback Spam?

When receiving a spammy trackback, you can do a few things. The first choice would be to delete the trackback, keeping your comments area clean and spamless. The second choice would be to leave it there, giving the spammer the linkback he wants while lowering your reputation and respect as you link to sites with questionable content. The third option is what I’m recommending for you to do, and that is to delete edit the trackback and delete the link, but leave the trackback there. (Example here). This gives you content in your comments as sometimes even spammy trackbacks are related in very small ways while also lightening up your comments area, but at the same time taking away the linkback to the spammy site. Thus saving you reputation and reputation from going down the drain.

Every blogger and webmaster loves content and activity within the comments of a post, but hate giving out links to spammers in the comments area.  The third method I suggested is the best way to deal with trackback spam. It gives you all the advantages of a legitimate trackback while neutralizing it’s disadvantages.

Word of advice, only use the 3rd method which I highlighted above when the trackback is not complete spam. As even the method above won’t help you if the trackback is complete spam. Also, you can use the method which I shared to edit even legitimate trackbacks to stop your pagerank from leaking – yes, it might seem cruel but people do do this .

So from now on, do yourself a favour and instead of totally deleting the trackback, edit the track and remove it’s hyperlink. What do you guys think about trackback spam and the method of which I shared on how to deal with it?

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How To Increase Search Engine Traffic Without Spending A Cent

Search engine traffic is one of my favourite sources of traffic. It’s free, it’s targeted, and it steadily increases in time. Drett receives around 800 unique visitors a month from search engines alone, this means 800 visitors that I do not need to pay a cent for. Pretty nice deal right? Free targeted traffic.

Before I start on how to increase search engine traffic to your blog or website, I just want to say that I’m not some expert or guru who claims to be able to increase your search engine traffic overnight. Nor am I saying that the tips and guidelines I’m about to share with you are surefire and will surely help you increase your traffic from search engines. I’m also not trying to imply that by using these tactics you can easily gain more traffic from search engines that established sites, although I wish this was true.  I’m just a blogger who is still relatively new to blogging and want to share my humble experience and opinions.

And with that, I’ll start.

There are many ways to increase search engine traffic to your site, so many that if I were to write about every single way to increase traffic known to bloggers and webmasters, it’ll take more than a day. Rather than trying to cover every single way to increase traffic from search engines, I’ll share some tips that will help you increase your search engine traffic by just adjusting and optimizing the way you write your content. Something which I found to be quite effective, does work, and something I myself do.

Content is something every website and blog has. A lot of content, a little content, boring content, interesting content – all different forms of content. What many of them who write the content on their sites and blogs do not know is that they rarely ever do manage to optimize their content and maximize the content’s potential.

Here are some guidelines to follow and take note of when writing content on your blog which I find helps you rank higher and appear in more search engines results, thus increasing your traffic from search engines for free. I’m quite sure that these strategies and guidelines below work, so you might really want to give it a try.

• Increase the number of different keywords in your content
• Increase the number of times a keyword is repeated – don’t spam it though
• Phrase your sentences and keywords in your content properly
• Have a permalink with keywords
• Have titles that have keywords

Increase the number of different keywords in your content and increase the number of times a keyword is repeated.

Just by increasing the number of different keywords and times the keyword is repeated in your content, you can quite dramatically increase search engine traffic to your site. When you write your content, don’t just write for the sake of writing, think about how you want your visitors to find the particular content you are writing, what kind of terms and keywords that are related to your site, then write your content around those particular keywords. Repeat the keywords whenever you have a chance (please don’t spam the keywords though, exercise discretion ).

As you have more different keywords and repeated keywords, the keyword density of your content and related keywords number increases, and so does the chance of getting more traffic to your site from search engines. For example, if you have 2 kinds of keywords in your content - “bike” and “camping”, you’ll be able to get traffic from search engines not only on keywords such as “bike” and “camping”, but also on searches for “bike camping”. This really does help. Trust me.

Phrase your sentences and keywords in your content properly.

I cannot begin to stress how effective this method has been for me. Basically, you should try phrase your sentences and keywords in the same manner and sequence in which people use to search on the search engines.

For example, you should use repeated sentence in your content, such as “free traffic for a lifetime” instead of breaking up the sentence. This is because it gives you a higher chance of ranking high in search results whenever people search for “free traffic for a lifetime”.

Similarly, if you keep using the phrase “make money online by blogging” throughout your content, you’ll stand a high chance of being listed high in the search engines result whenever people search for “make money online by blogging”.

Have permalinks and titles with keywords.

One thing I noticed after a couple months blogging is that posts and pages with titles and keywords that has the keywords I’m searching for more often than not appear higher in the search engines result. This means that the search engines put a higher emphasis on posts that have titles and permalinks full of keywords than those that don’t.

The next time you write the title of your post, instead of just writing a catchy title, try to strike a balance between the degree of attractiveness of the title and the number of keywords in it.

So these are some of my tips on how to get more traffic from search engines by just optimizing your content. And once again, I don’t claim that with this you’ll instantly be able to gain a whole lot of traffic from search engines, but every little bit does does help.

My last word of advice to all of you is to never stop writing content, as even if you don’t optimize it thus maximizing it’s traffic from search engines potential, these content when accumulated and indexed by search engines will eventually bring in some traffic from search engines.

If you agree or disagree with some of the tips I wrote about above, please comment below. Together we might still be able to come out with better tips .

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Paid Blogging

Nowadays bloggers can also make money and monetize their website by doing paid blogging. Paid blogging is actually writing a review or advertisement in you blog and then getting paid for it. It’s a win-win-win situation. The advertiser gets the word out about his site, product or service while the publisher (aka blogger) gets paid for writing a post on his blog and the readers usually get to know of some useful service and product.

This category, the "Paid Blogging" category is where I would write about what I learn from the whole Paid Blogging industry, reviews of different blog advertisement networks, news in the Paid Blogging industry, paid posts, my earnings so far and much more - basically everything that is to do with the whole Paid Blogging industry.

Note: From what I have seen so far, the Paid Blogging industry pays far better than the GPT (Get Paid To) industry. Of course to be able to earn money from the Paid Blogging industry the requirements are much higher, such as having a blog which is relatively well read. Oh well, I do hope that I can join some networks and write about my journey through the Paid Blogging industry.

To my success

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