Way to Find More Inbound Links? / What Happened to Trackbacks?

ShaneRQR · 07-11-2010, 02:21 PM

Up until recently, every bloody place where anyone would link from a blog to one of my WordPress sites would show up as a trackback. This was very welcome as I like to then go build a few backlinks to the sites linking to me.

It seems that around the time of the WP 3.0 update, this stopped almost completely. I used to get dozens of trackbacks every day and now it's only a couple a week.

Any idea why this is?

Also, is the a better way to find blogs linking to my sites, other than querying Google, Yahoo and Google Blog search (all of which only find a tiny fraction of the pages featuring inbound links)?

Thanks.

dvduval · 07-11-2010, 03:41 PM

Wouldn't this fall into the category of massive reciprocal linking? Isn't that something google has repeatedly mentioned as a way to get penalized?

ShaneRQR · 07-11-2010, 10:56 PM

The trackbacks themselves? Yes, but only if you publish them.

To me, the value in getting the trackbacks was knowing where links were coming from.

07-11-2010, 02:21 PM	#1
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07-11-2010, 03:41 PM	#2
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ShaneRQR Obsessive Tester War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Switzerland Posts: 724 Thanks: 411 Thanked 291 Times in 136 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Way to Find More Inbound Links? / What Happened to Trackbacks? The trackbacks themselves? Yes, but only if you publish them. To me, the value in getting the trackbacks was knowing where links were coming from.
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