Trackbacks are simply a way to tell other bloggers that you have linked to them as you found their post useful. So it is better to include a trackback rather than including a comment on other blog.

make a trackback to other blog it is necessary that both the blogs linking to each other must be trackback enabled. You can make out whether the other blog is trackback enabled or not by finding a link at the bottom of their post such as “trackback URL”.

If the blog is trackback enabled, then make use of the trackback URL to send a trackback otherwise your trackback will not be sent to designated blog and also won’t feature in the trackback section. It means when you want to send a trackback notification, you can do this by inserting their trackback link some where in your post that is published on your blog.

Many bloggers won’t enable the feature of trackback on their blog by default due to spammers misuse the tracking facility. Finding a blog that are trackback enabled and linking to them will help you in increasing the traffic because the visitors of the linked site my follow the link and visit your site. Hence trackback is a way to increase traffic to your site.

There are different wordpress plugins to manage trackback for a blogger. Using such plugins will ease blog management easier. They are:

Are you campaigning with Google Adwords? If yes, you might be tracking your conversions. Conversion tracking work well if you can have control landing page and conversion pages have tracking code in them. To do so one must realize that,

Adwords destination links are different from the URL that is displayed. The display URL is the URL that is shown to the user when he hover the mouse on the ad. Destination URL is the URL that the user is taken to when they click on the ad. Both the link have same top level domain URL.

To track adwords it is important to have unique links for individual ads. Google adwords editor will allow you to assign a unique link for each advertisement and at the same time it also allows you assign a unique link for each keyword that is use to in Google adwords.

RSS is a way that allows site owners to syndicate their content of the blog to readers. Previously this task was done manually but right now there are number of wordpress plug-ins that helps in your way to manage your blog RSS feed.

• Feed subscriber stats – this plug-in allows you to check how many subscribers have subscribed to your RSS feed via feedburner from your dashboard of your blog.

• Feedburner widget – is a plug-in that displays your feedburner subscriber on your sidebar.

• Feedage tracker – this plug-in allows you add buttons to your site so that visitors can directly subscribe from your site.

• Align RSS images – aligning images into wordpress blog post is very simple but when wordpress removed ‘align’. It ended up breaking the layout of the images in your RSS feeds. It can be corrected manually but this plug-in allows you to do it automatically, so that you don’t have to do it manually every time you post.

• Private RSS – this plug-in allows you to create a separate RSS feed from the main one. You can use both main RSS and private RSS to perform different task.

With increased use of RSS feeds, it has become important to put RSS feed on your website or blog. If you are hosting blog on wordpress, then RSS feed comes with default. Instead you are looking for RSS feed for your non wordpress blog or site then you obviously have to create an RSS feed for your website. There are many tools that help you in creating RSS feed instead of gaining expertise in creating one.

• Feedity – this service simple and makes a little changes to automatically generated feeds. After the user submits the URL of the page to make feed, it gives you an option to add start and end tags of HTML. They are required if you want to notify the starting and ending of each posts.

• FeedYes – it other easy way to create RSS feed as it requires only URL of the page you wish to create feed. One should set the minimum and maximum number of characters in a title and first and last news items of value.

• Feed43 – this tool allows you to have more control over the final appearance of the feed.

RSS feed is a great way to share your blogging activity with your visitors especially if you are active on social networking and social bookmarking website, then your visitors or friends will enjoy getting latest updates of your blog.

One way to import and display feed on your blog, use wp_rss() function. This function allows the wordpress to fetch and parse the essential feed. Include the following code into your template file.

< ? php include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/rss.php');
wp_rss('http://domain.com/your-feed/', 7); ?>

In this code we include wp_rss() from rss.php file and the parameter of wp_rss() function include the feed URL and number of titles to display in the feed.

As blogging has become a way to make money, inserting images in the blog posts is a way to earn money through advertising. Inserting images in the blog posts is easy with wordpress as wordpress allows you to align images left, right, center or none and at the same time add a caption to them. These images usually works fine when they are viewed in blog posts but messed up in the RSS feed. With RSS feed this images become unaligned and even break the structure or layout of the post.

For this reason it requires to fix this if you want to align an image in feed that works well. This can be done easily by adding a style attribute to each image of the post. Include this code to or .

Adding such code manually every time you add a image would be bothersome. Align RSS images is a simple plug-in that helps you in adding images by scanning your RSS feed and also ensures that your image is aligned correctly.

To download the plug-in click here

Blogger.com ability to add RSS to your blog makes this platform for blogging popular. To add RSS feed to your blog, follow these instructions.

1. Log on to your blogger.com account. This will take you to dashboard of your blogger.com account, where the list of your blog will be listed there.

2. Select “layout” of your desired blog that you want to add RSS feed.

3. Click on the “add a page element” that appears in another window with list of available page element that can be added to your blog. To add feed to you blog, select the “Add to blog” underneath the “Feed” element that takes you to “configure feed” dialog box.

4. Paste RSS link URL into your “Feed URL” box of the blogger and click continue to save your changes. It will take you to new dialog box that ask for the title of the blog feed you are publishing. Enter necessary information and save the changes.

5. The Feed you have added will show up as the top item in the list of your page elements. You can left-click and move it to different location wherever you desire and click save button after you satisfied with changes.

Many bother about the finding RSS feed address in blogger, but it is not that harder to find out. There are three to four ways to find out your RSS feed address.

Look at the bottom of the page for blog feed address. It is because lot of blog designs have this address at the bottom of the page saying Posts (Atom). Don’t confuse between RSS and Atom as purpose of both is same. You can get link using either by “copy link location” (firefox) or “copy shortcut” (internet explorer) from the right-click menu.

Look at source code: View-> source or View-> Page source option of the browser to view HTML where you can find couple of lines that define the web address of the feed that begins with

You can also get the RSS feed address from RSS reader software only if your blog is subscribed to it.

Using RSS reader software (feeddemon or Google reader), you can find the web address of the feed automatically, when you enter website address.

RSS is short form for Rich Site Summary and it is a simple way to distribute fresh content of your website on the web. Webmaster use RSS to quickly update their blogs over net about their fresh content. RSS feed is a function of software that allows feed readers to access your site for new content and post the update to RSS subscribers.

There are different ways how the RSS is used by the readers as some include RSS while others use atom or RDF files.

By default wordpress blogging platform allows various feeds generated by bloginfo() tag.

To add RSS feed to your wordpress blog search for bloginfo () tag which is typically located in sidebar and/or footer file of wordpress theme and insert this code.

For RDF/RSS 1.0 feed
< ? php bloginfo(‘rdf_url’); ?>


For RSS 0.92 feed
< ? php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>


For comments RSS 2.0 feed
< ? php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>


For RSS 2.0 feed
< ? php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>

For Atom feed
< ? php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>

Adding feed to your wordpress blog is important because not all wordpress themes features RSS feed types.