Does your blog accept trackbacks?
Ariane Benefit is a coach who is BRILLIANTLY using her blog to promote not only her coaching practice, but her book as well! Her blog “Neat and Simple Living” has great timely tips and posts.
So, when I tried to link to her timely post Organizing Financial and Tax Return Information Digitally, I got an error message.
The same error message I got when I tried to link to Patsi Krakoff over at writing on the web or even HTTP Client Error Codes in Cartoon Form
What these three blogs have in common is they are TYPEPAD hosted blogs. When you create a trackback to a typepad blog, you follow the instructions at the end of the post:
I should be able to copy and paste the Trackback url into my blog for the link and VIOLA! A trackback is born!
Trackbacks are the gas for any blog’s engines. These are also known in SEO land as “incoming links”. Typepad honors these salutes to content by showcasing them above comments. But for some reason, these blogs aren’t allowing trackbacks.
Is it an oversight? A mistake? I have no idea what the reason is behind the error… but if you click on the links above you’ll see the error. What confuses me is not ALL Typepad blogs produce this error. Sometimes I can trackback link to a Typepad blog and it works as it should. My readers can click on a link and travel to the other author’s blog effortlessly. However, more often than not lately I’m finding that Typepad trackbacks don’t work…. which if you’re the owner of a Typepad blog this should worry you too.
Trackbacks are literally the lifeblood of your blog. Be sure your blog accepts them by creating your own trackback entry to your own post. Once the post is live… test the link! If you get an error message… you have a critical problem that MUST be addressed if you’re to harness all the power possible from your blog style web site.
