You can find traffic anywhere

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I did a post called Links around the internet. It looks like people love link love kind of posts. Here is a screen shot of the websites that brought people to the post.

linklovepost_referrers

I wasn’t expecting cnn being one of the top referrers to the post but I was on the top list of blogs linking back to the story. Here is the screen shot of that.

cnnblogslinking

You can see how track backs help spread your post so you reach greater audience of visitors. CNN probably helped with Google, Bing picking up the post also. Twitter can help also for bringing in visitors, and when you comment and if they use Commentluv people might be interest in the post. Track backs and where you are linking to will help you bring in visitors also. What do you think about this?

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October 15, 2009 | Filed Under Blog

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9 Responses to “You can find traffic anywhere”

Klaus @ TechPatio (57 comments.) on October 15th, 2009 9:59 am

Looks like the google visitors are the ones spending most time on your site, where the cnn visitors are gone again extremely fast – I assume it’s the “time spent on site” column in the middle.
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Stefan (20 comments.) on October 15th, 2009 2:27 pm

In Sweden this is a common method to attract visitors. Sites linking back to as many news articles as possible just to shown in the sidebar as a trackback.

Usually they have something like this in the end of their post, with every number being a link:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Dana@Online Knowledge (6 comments.) on October 15th, 2009 11:37 pm

I do not know if this old way still work. I already used tracback to get some traffic 2 year ago in my local language blog.
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Brad Harmon (5 comments.) on October 16th, 2009 4:43 am

I am still a newbie blogger so I am confused. You just linked to the CNN story and they linked back to you automatically under their trackbacks?
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Chris Peterson (8 comments.) on October 16th, 2009 4:53 am

It’s really cool Greg that CNN got so many visitors to your blog. I was wondering why they didn’t stay for longer. Anyways, I am sure you would figure it out & make the necessary changes.
I am really impresssed to see how you are making excellent use of your research to grow as well as to make the posts from it. I think its really smart.
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Greg Ellison (212 comments.) on October 16th, 2009 6:17 am

That is correct Brad. I linked to a story and they put my trackback at the bottom. Greg Ellison
Ganar dinero (1 comments.) on October 19th, 2009 3:46 pm

Great, did CNN actually link to you. Or how did you get traffic from them?
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Greg Ellison (212 comments.) on October 19th, 2009 7:28 pm

They included my link on the page because I included track back to them. Greg Ellison
Dinesh (1 comments.) on October 24th, 2009 11:44 am

Traffic from CNN – Something new to me.
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