The Power of Trackbacks
After not having checked my Google Analytics for a while, and after getting very tired of my statistics homework, I decided to take a peek and see how my blog traffic was doing. I wrote a post a few days back about my second impression of Ruby on Rails; in that post I linked to a TechCrunch post that, at that time, had been recently published. It turns out that the TechCrunch article that I linked to turned out to be a hot post, and my trackback turned out to be the first of many. TechCrunch referred 10x the amount of people that normally visit my blog, and the referrals are still coming in.
The moral of the story is that trackbacks may not help SEO at all, but it's definitely a good way of getting referrals. I just wish my post was slightly more interesting. Maybe then my subscriber count would have increased more (it didn't really increase much at all).
May 8th, 2008 - 07:11
Hear, hear. Or here, here. Man. I had a scone today. It looke like a good ol’ plain scone. But after the second bite I realized that this was in fact a raspberry-chocolate scone. Hot damn.