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I have been doing a lot of blogging this weekend to get a new domain established, I usually manage to get a new site indexed in Google within ten days. The new domain was registered on Thursday and I started uploading new posts on the same day.  So if it appears in the index by next weekend I will be happy. Then I will start to get some good traffic from the search engines and I should be able to use the domain to start blogging for money very soon. I ’stumbled’ one of the posts at StumbleUpon! and that produced more than fifty visitors in an hour. But I find that most Stumblers do not stay on the site very long as they are not really targeted to the niche of every page that they stumble. So traffic from Stumbleupon is not always quality traffic.

One new blogging tactic that I have been studying is how to do a trackback to get more links and traffic. This means commenting in other bloggers’ posts to generate quality backlinks to my site. I have downloaded an excellent eBook by Jack Humphrey, and I am working my way through the information for bloggers that it contains. More of that later, because I can only write about one subject at a time. I promise to review the book very soon.

In the process I looked for my own trackback URLs, and I could not see them at all. I felt pretty dumb that I had not noticed this before. Maybe that is why I mostly just get spammy pingbacks from splogs.

The reason that my trackback URL was not showing was confusing me. This blog, like most of my sites, uses a very cool Wordpress theme by zenphotothemes called Blackcrunch and although the authors have included a trackback utility in the single post page, it is only of any use to automated readers. The code that i found was < ?php trackback_rdf(); ? > but this was not visible when reading the post in a browser. Honest human bloggers, who are actually reading about how to blog for money, would see nothing if they wanted to trackback to one of my more informative posts.

I had a search around to find a way round this. Wordpress.org was not helpful at all, even though their site showed high up in the search result. In fact the answer was shown further down the same page of search results, showing up from opendesigns.org forum. The code I needed appeared in the page description and it reads like this: < a href=”< ?php trackback_url(display); ?>”> Trackback-URL < /a>< /p>

I have left spaces after each < and before each > so that the commmands will display when you read this. Just place this code on your single post page, after the post content, and your fans will be able to trackback to your posts.