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  Andy Beard

  2 years ago

  I gather you must have had some trackbacks now appear :)
  
  In some ways this is like a trackback on a blog - the problem is any blog entry which rarely gives a followable link often gets lots of trackbacks and comments, so even if you trackback a popular blog like Techcrunch, you might only receive a trickly of traffic, unless you have a very provocative title.
  In that situation, your trackback might even get deleted
  
  I have a hunch that with PRWeb, as long as what you post is well researched, and "opinion piece" is less likely to be deleted.
  
  In some competitive niches it is hard to get relevant links because they are all competitiors
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  Vlad

  2 years ago

  Yes Andy I got two, both form my two previous posts. This was just a test drive but for sure it opned up a new horizon, so thanks to both of you.
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  Vlad

  2 years ago

  >>In some competitive niches it is hard to get relevant links because they are all competitiors
  
  This explains why my first attempt on a web hosting related blog did not get a trackback.
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  Andy Beard

  2 years ago

  It is also why I sometimes contemplate the dangers of collective intelligence with spam plugins. There are blogs I have linked through to which in some way were critical (but constructively imho) and I haven't seen a trackback appear, even though I have had them appear in the past, and since then.
  
  Blogs based on MT you have to add a trackback URL in the box, it never seems to work automatically with pingback.
  
  Some blogs have the autodiscovery for pingback removed and you have to manually create your trackback URL. URLTOPOST/trackback/ is standard for Wordpress - this is the case for Problogger for instance.
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  Vlad

  2 years ago

  Funny you mentioned Darren's blog. I have several artcles linking to his post that did not gave me a trackback. I e-mailed Darren and got a reply from his about it. Turns out it was filtered by "colletive intelligence" filtering software.
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  Jatin

  2 years ago

  Hi , thanks for the tip. I am finding writing a whole big article and getting a 0 pr link from article submission directories are not yielding enough results. I never tried prweb but will do it now. Thanks again.
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  Vlad

  2 years ago

  Jatin,
  
  Some article directories are quiet good. I have use EzineArticles with some success. Unfortunately you need abou 100 articles in order to see a noticable boost in traffic.
  
  I have been usin PRWeb for sometime now. Few months back they still had an option to sumbmit press releases for free, but I did mostly $40 submitions, this optio is still there. If budget permits and you have a hot product/website to promote I would definetely go with $200 submitions. Well worthed in my opinion.
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  Rudman

  2 years ago

  That's a neat tip regarding the trackbacks (thanks to both Vlad and Andy) .. I also have found some benefit to PR web releases (both free and paid) .. although many of the links from re-posted/published versions of a release fade away within a mere few months, have found there's usually a decent number that get crawled regularly and keep that good old link-age fire burning .. it's definatly not the endall/beall for link dev, but a good complement, especially when used as intended, to announce something new ..
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  Vlad

  2 years ago

  Welcome Rudman,
  
  There is no more free press releases on PRWeb the minimum is $40.
  
  It also should be noted that not every press release will give you a trackback. I found that the more competetive industry is the hurder is to get a trackback. It looks like some trackbacks are held for moderation while others give you a link right away.
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