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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Apparently Google is experimenting with enhancing search results. The first experiment deals with ‘Alternate views for search results‘. This includes the list view (current option), info view, time line view and map view.

Now the interesting thing to note here is that each view gives different results. So although you might have worked hard to get your web pages to the top 10 in the current Google scenario (list view), you might find your listing missing in the three new proposed views.

Just imagine if Google were to introduce these as actual search options. The face of Google SEO will not be the same. It will be better for some, worse for others. May be nothing new about this but it is going to cause some upheaval and shifts in results depending on what view gets to be more popular.

Timeline View

Many a times I have wanted to filter results so I only get the latest and most updated pages. The timeline view offers just such an option. You can choose the year down to the month you want results from. Your range can be as wide or as narrow as you want. This is definitely a great search enhancement.

I see the timeline view favouring blogs that are constantly updated but I also see people cheating and changing dates on their blog posts to get better placement. So this may or may not work.

Map View – A NO NO for me

The map view is my least favorite. It hardly ever works right for me. And that is all I have to say about this one.

Info View

The info view so far has not made any sense as most of the variables don’t show any information. It offers to show this info for your results:

• Search Term
• Dates
• Measurements
• Locations
• Images

Only the first and last terms normally give any information. The rest mostly result in date not available, location not available, measurement not available for most of the results.

Conclusion

Out of all four I prefer the timeline search the best as I am assured the most current info. If I am just looking for information without a time period criterion then the normal list view serves its purpose. I don’t see myself using either the map or the info view at all.

Which search view do you find to be the most appealing?

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What that means in very simple terms is that a Search Engine Bot should not follow that link. Your commentator receives no link benefit from this and gets no page rank credit from Google. The reason why this is a default action in Wordpress is to combat comment spam, to stop people from leaving meaningless comments just to get a link back to their websites.

However, all this does is inconvenience the real posters who are genuinely contributing to the discussion. The no-follow tag has not served its pupose and has not stopped spam flooding your comments. Best option is to just use the Akismet plugin (comes with Wordpress) for that and be done with it.

So let’s come back to the people who are contributing effectively to a discussion on your blog. Why are they being punished? They are giving something, they should get something back. It is a fair exchange. And it is a win-win situation as you can be at the receiving end as well by posting comments on blogs that do-follow links.

So from today onwards, this blog is officially a DO FOLLOW blog.

You can use a very simple, set it and forget it plugin called Semiologic Do-Follow

You can add your do-follow blog to this list.

There is a list of more plugins as well as directories you can add your do-follow blog to. Check it out.

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