You probably spent a lot of time or money or both to get a great looking website up and running. You might even be keeping up with a Blog on your site as often as you can but chances are, unless you’re paying very big bucks, your site traffic is less than what you’d like it to be. Directing traffic to your website is a science some people make their living off of but at the bottom of it all is having some really stuff on your site. A lot of other people have written some really great articles and posts and have incredible information on their sites…. For instance, take this link:
http://cheapshooter.com Where another Blog poster took the time to locate and identify 11 videos that were posted on YouTube. In their words:
Cheapshooter has been busy pre-screening a lot of YouTube videos to make this list of the best video photography tips available online. They are among the best examples of photography tips on YouTube - well-produced videos that know what they’re talking about.
He’s gone through YouTube and watched several videos about how to take better photos, how to use your camera and other things. There’s no telling how many hours he spent looking them over. Then he was kind enough to actually put the best ones together and group them. By citing the article here and taking advantage of the trackback feature built into my bloggins software, WordPress, I can accomplish several things:
1. I can provide some decent content that would be interesting to other photographers, aspiring photographers, or the general public intersted learning something about what to expect out of a good photographer.
2. I can send a direct Thank You to the website who did all that initial research to combine those YouTube videos and publish them all in one place.
3. By using trackbacks, it’s almost like getting an ultimate Kudo. Nothing excites a webmaster more than knowing all their hard work and effort actually paid off. It lets them know that people are actually reading their blogs.
4. Last but not least, it creates links to each of our websites. This is where the website marketing people go nuts but the simple explanation is that websites that are cool have cool stuff. And when people find cool websites, they build links to them. Because I think there is a cool article on cheapshooter.com, I can easily let the rest of the world know it by casting a cool vote for them by using the trackback feature built into my blogging software.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:46 am
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