Getting traffic to your blog and trackbacks

56 Ways to get traffic to your blog - this is a great entry by Seth Godin.

Some of my favorite points are these:

Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
Be timeless... write posts that will be readable in a year.
Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.
Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.
(but he also says this :) Don't include comments, people will cross post their responses.
Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
--- this one made me go research trackbacks

TRACKBACKS

• Person A writes something on their blog.
• Person B wants to comment on Person A's blog, but wants her own readers to see what she had to say, and be able to comment on her own blog
• Person B posts on her own blog and sends a trackback to Person A's blog
• Person A's blog receives the trackback, and displays it as a comment to the original post. This comment contains a link to Person B's post 

and finally Seth says: don't be boring :)

Seth I hope I trackbacked correctly. If not here is a link to his website seth

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