Generate Trackbacks and Backlinks using TrackBoost

Today I came across this software - TrackBoost.

The first deterrant to looking into this further was the fact that the website only had a video and hardly any content about the software. My speakers are not working at the moment and I find using my headphones to be a pain. However, I put them on unwillingly as I wanted to get more information.

If you are like me and don’t want to be forced to watch videos, here is a lowdown of what the software is about and what I liked and disliked about the product.

What It Does

The software links to your Wordpress database. According to the website:

TrackBoost is made for self-hosted Wordpress blogs, but will work with any blogging system that supports the MetaWebLog API

The software once connected to your database picks out a list of your recent posts and lets you edit them. You can also add new posts and publish them directly from within the software.

But this is not what the software is mainly about. Its main purpose is to let you search for your keywords and find blogs that allow trackbacks. You can choose the ones you want to add from a list of blogs. The software automatically gets the title, trackback link and excerpt from the website. All you gotta do is copy/paste.

What I Like About the Software

1. I like the way you can put in a certain search terms and get results of all blogs that offer the trackback option. This means that once you add a link to their blog, you will get a link in their trackbacks/comments sections for that post. Instant backlinks.
2. You can also preview the search results directly within the software. This way you can be sure the links you are adding are of some value.
3. You can also view the page rank and Alexa ranking of these blogs so you can decide if it is worth the effort or not. Ot you can decide to be nice to a new blogger and give them a backlink from your blog.
4. There is a lot of time saving involved here as you don’t have to browse through dozens of Google results for blogs that may or may not offer trackbacks. Plus you don’t have to painstakingly copy all the information like post title, trackback link, post excerpt, etc manually. The software does a great job of this.

What I Did Not Like About the Software

1. This is of course a personal preference but I don’t use WYSIWYG editors. And this software only offers that one option. I prefer controlling my own code. So this part does not work for me.
2. Softwares like these give people the chance to be lazy and put up blogs with nothing but links and excerpts from other websites. So if you do plan on using this software, please add good content along with the trackbacks.
3. Another pet peeve of mine - this software has the option of adding no follow tags to the trackback links. Now that is just bad! If you want a backlink, you should be willing to provide one, too. So IMO this option shouldn’t even be there.

Wish List

1. I wish it also had the option to detect blogs that offer trackbacks with the do-follow option. Without do-follow, the backlink is meaningless.
2. Two posting options like in Wordpress so those who don’t like the visual editor can turn it off.

Since this is a fairly new software I’m sure there will be updates and new features coming up soon.

[You might also want to read: TrackBoost: 5 Minutes to Killer Backlinks!]

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