Trackbacks are a great way to generate fresh new content on your own blog while actually making a comment regarding somebody else’s blog post.
Here’s the deal, you have found a great post on somebody else’s blog (preferably a similar topic to your own blog) that you would like to make a comment on. Rather than making the comment directly on their blog site you decide to use the trackback strategy and basically post the comment on your own site linking back to the original bloggers post. Pretty cool right?

Here is the trackback breakdown on video by our traffic guru Jack Humphrey How to do a trackback to get more links and traffic

Thank you Jack!

Ok, I know this is posted all over the place on other blogs but it is too good not to post here. Even if it means my blog goes into the supplemental index again. :)

If all seo and website traffic techniques were explained in plain simple English like this. We would all be experts in no time at all. I’m a big believer in the “keep it simple” theory. RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.

Please let me know if you enjoyed this as much as I did.

Regards, Jared Blake

I went searching for the answer to this question and the only thing I found was a comment on Matt Cutt’s blog in 2006 by a user stating he read somewhere inside Google sitemaps that the standard only allows 2000 characters. I don’t believe this to be the case now, as most of my files have been found and disallowed by Google and because of my recent site restructure, I currently have 4394 characters in my robots.txt file. Does anyone out there have the exact answer on this? I will try to post the question again to Matt Cutts.