TrackBack Spam
7/10/2008The comment spam is well-known to any blogger. Without protection, the blog is doomed, but really, spamming via comments, specially to blogs that require manual comment moderation can be a pain, so how to get around this little dilemma? Trackback Spam.
What Are Trackbacks?
A trackback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking, and so referring, to their articles. Some weblog software programs, such as Wordpress, Movable Type, Typo and Community Server, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of linkback
Some say it’s a myth, others say an outdated method, we say it’s an opportunity to bring sexy back. That’s right, what has long been over used can always be reused, with a little tweaking here and there.
This is a short but to the point post about how to get hundreds if not thousands of backlinks through way of trackbacks.
You see, trackbacks should appear automatically, without manual intervention…which means without any control, due to the nature of the trackbacks, there is no easy solution for bloggers to prevent trackback spam, it’s an absolute bitch that gets them every time, so to all of you spammers shoving thousands of comments in their face a day, change your tactic while you still can, below is an example of trackback spam (note, for this to work best, after we have listed all confirmed trackbacks we will simply remove the links from the following paragraph! an advanced apology to the bloggers we’re about to ping here, this is for the sake of educating people…yeah…and Quad, much respect goes out to you);
So, ad agencies are designing products now, and this trend has every indication of expanding for the foreseeable future. It’s a pretty logical next step in the quest for flexibility and virtuality, and, it could be argued, is an indication of a maturing product and media market. As Walker is fond of pointing out, we are first world consumers, and most of our fundamental needs have been pretty well taken care of for the past 50 years or more. In his book Buying In, he offers the recent example of a Consumer Reports examination of kitchen ranges, in which every one of the 60-odd units examined scored “good” or “excellent” in performance and quality. There are plenty of markets like that, so it’s easy to argue that all that’s left are adjustments of minutia to affect the consumer’s perception of the product; brand identities excel at maximizing that sort of thing.
Below are links to trackbacks created:
URL: www[dot]noupe.com/css/css-typography-contrast-techniques-tutorials-and-best-practices.html
URL: www.[dot]seofm.com/?p=124
URL: www[dot]sloveniandesigner.com/watshit-about-freelance-designers/
Now food for thought, aim at slamming older posts with pr on the blog post pages, also say you code a little trackback link data miner, a little crawler that finds and lists trackback urls, you’ll have thousands, simply listing chunks from time to time will do wonders for your backlink building. Go have fun and remember, think outside the box and rewind to check out some of the older spam techniques. Next we plan on talking you through Link Bait and techniques/methods and tricks to go along with that not to mention a note on affiliate marketing and how to make more off of your affiliate links by being…smart?!
We left Quad’s trackback link because he requires them to be moderated, also to provide and example to those that don’t know what a trackback is.
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