If You're Blogging, Are You Using the Power of Trackbacks?

As you know, I've been blogging for a while now - sometimes not as often as I'd like to, especially for this blog, as it's strictly a labor of love.

If you're not blogging for your program, you should be. And if you are, I want to make sure that you're using the power of trackbacks.

If you don't know what a trackback is, it's kind of like the game "telephone" or "gossip" that you might have played as a kid...somebody gives you a message, and you deliver it to someone else, who delivers it to someone else, and so on and so forth.

The cool thing about trackbacks is that, unlike the game where the messsage sometimes gets garbled up, or doesn't get delivered at all, a trackback is a way for someone to talk about a post you made on your blog with the people they know...and if it's relevant, those people can talk about it to other people, and it goes on and on!

That's the beauty about social networking. The other reason that using trackbacks is so important is that they are a way to get your blog - and your Website listed in the search engines. The higher you're listed in the search engines, the easier people will be able to find your blog or your Website, and that will get you one step closer to achieving your goals and continuing with your mission.

So, how do you trackback? Click that link (with the word trackback) and be sure to read both posts. The guy who wrote it explains it a lot better than I can - in fact, he's the one who (finally) was able to make me understand what trackbacks are and how they work.

And then after you've read it, get busy and start doing it!

Check This Out!

If you haven't used blogger lately, then you haven't used blogger! If you've been reading this blog over the weekend, you will have noticed that it's been a couple of different colors, it's been a couple of different styles - and now there are new labels added, to make it easier for you to find what you're looking for!

Blogger has gone Beta!

So far, I LOVE it! It's easy to use, it works great and, after going back in and adding labels to my posts, (I'm glad I only had 40 and not 400), I can say that I'm even more of a fan!

For the time being, I'm sticking with this one - these colors and this format. Let me know what you think. And if you don't already have a blogger account, get one!