The Conservative Cat

The key to evolving to a higher level in the TTLB Ecosystem is to get links to your blog on the front pages of other blogs. This also helps improve your Google and Technorati rankings and increases the general visibility of your site We offer several services that put you on our front page.

First, this is the home of the Permanent Floating Ping Festival. You can get an article to appear in the Ping Festival by sending a trackback ping to

http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3

The article title and excerpt will appear in the little box on the front page below the My Best Stuff section. As a bonus, it will also show up on the Carnival Page and in the sidebar on our Ecosystem Stuff page. Because an excerpt is included, there is a chance that people who see the link will have their interest piqued and want to visit your site.

Each article on our main page displays direct links to the web sites of the six most recent commenters. This means that if you make comments to an article on our main page, it counts as a link for purposes of determining your rank in the Ecosystem. The presence of such links also helps to improve your search engine ranking. Articles stay on the main page for seven days.

All we ask is that the comments be reasonably relevant.

We have many other ways to help increase your visibility. If you are a cat lover, check out our Cat Lover's Page. If you decide to join the Cat Lover's Community, a link to your blog will appear on the front page of every other Cat Lover member blog, and you can send a trackback ping to

http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/1087

for each article you write about your cats. Cat Lovers frequently visit this page, so it's good publicity.

Every weekday we collect links to examples of conservative or non-political humor and post them in our Funny Stuff section. If you have a post that you think is particularly funny, submit it to Funny Stuff via EMAIL. Please note that we only accept articles from the current or previous day, so you can't use this technique for old posts you're particularly proud of.

Finally, there is Linkfest Haven Deluxe. Linkfest Haven Deluxe collects links to Open Trackback Posts. An Open Trackback Post is one which can be pinged by anybody, and the ping makes a link back to you appear on the pinged blog. This does not help you in the Ecosystem, but it does bring additional traffic. For more information, read The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns (which introduces the Open Trackback Alliance) or watch my Flash Movie, The Art of Linkfesting.

For more about trackbacks, click here. You can also check out Bad Example's trackback tips.

To everyone who links to us or participates in our blog, now or in the future, thank you for helping me to achieve world domination and for giving Bruce a fuzzy sort of feeling of usefulness.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat