LAST UPDATE, VERDICT- Trackback Spider is an ineffective link building tool, the owners practices misleading marketing methods (flat out lies about things) and anyone who recommended this to you is not your “pal”
Trackback Spider is a tool by some dude named Jared, and was promoted a while ago on a seminar by some “guru” named Keith Baxter.
You can go here and waste 40 minutes on a webinar listening to what this tool does, what trackbacks are, how TB Spider works etc…. but if you’re here you probably already know what trackbacks are (blog to blog notifications of being linked to).
I got Trackback spider a long time ago and almost immediately canceled it because trackback spam was something that I thought would be a short-lived gimmicky method, and also back then when I saw that I had to create databases and run cron jobs, I ran, not walked away from that stuff because basically I like, and still do like, easy to use interfaces, but if you add layers of complexity on top of doing spam linking then I’m all set with that, not gonna do it.
Obviously things have changed, since this site you’re on now has gotten more popular and more requests have come in for reviews on all sorts of stuff so I bought 2 copies of TB Spider, or rather I asked some people to get it since allegedly only 1 copy was gonna be made available and I fell for the lies err false scarcity tactics there, which puts Jared on my S*T list… so I ended up with at least 2 copies…
What’s TrackBack spider do?
It sends out trackbacks to sites you want links back from, so let’s say you have a self improvement site, or blog and you want links back from other sites in same niche, then you send them trackbacks and once those trackbacks are approved by the recipients, ie, the other site owners, they will most likely approve the trackbacks without doing too much due diligence.
If that’s the case, then great, you got yourself a trackback for a site in your niche and hopefully it’s a Dofollow link, most blogs are Nofollow by default on their trackbacks by the way, by default.
The bottom line is that Trackback Spider allows you to either ignore the “nofollow” attribute or to eliminate any blog with the “nofollow” attribute. I have done tests searching with and without and it really has not made a significant difference in the total links I can find.
Also, if the site owner/trackback recipient does do due diligence before approving the trackback you sent, they’re going to check to see if there really was a trackback sent, and that they were, in fact, linked to form another site somewhere (YOU).
What Trackback spider allegedly does is spoofs a backlink to those sites in hopes that the recipients see the trackback-giving url linking to them, and then they go away, go back to their site, and approve the trackback/link.
Trackback Spider software/scripts:
There’s web based PHP software and desktop software you can use to run this…
Desktop software isn’t compatible with windows 7, and there’s hardly any instructions on how to run the PHP version.
Video training only shows how to install the scripts (databases, cron jobs, settings etc…)
So far it’s a bear to get this thing up and running, but that’s the scoop thus far on what Trackback Spider does. A follow up post will reveal how we did with this.
LAST UPDATE, VERDICT- Trackback Spider is an ineffective link building tool, the owners practices misleading marketing methods (flat out lies about things) and anyone who recommended this to you is not your “pal”
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Not too sure how this differs from scrapebox’s trackback spam thingy (which does so many other things for a one time payment as well). But will be interesting to see if track backs work… I personally just delete them all… similar to blog spam comments they are very easy to spot.
Before I wrote this, I was asked by a couple of ScrapeBox power users how TB spider is different form SB’s similar tool. there’s quite a few differences, and I’ll go over it in the follow up post for this. I/you/we have to remember that we’re “savvy” webmasters, and this is a tool to exploit the “unsavvy” but TB Spider allegedly does spoofing too, will explain later
I’m curious to see what results you get because all it got me was a waste of a couple monthly charges. The databases took forever to generate and then once you had it created and began sending the trackback requests to sites. I had the tool running for two months and never got as much as one trackback. No-follow or follow.
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Trackback Spider’s still around?
I remember it from back when Adam Short was mainly doing blackhat spammy sitebuilding and running his PGI membership which of course he has evolved from now.