What if I told you that in less than 60 seconds you can increase traffic to your website.
And at the same time, build new backlinks without lifting a finger?
Well: Today I am going to show you exactly how to do that!
And best of all?
This method is 100% free!
All you need to be able to do is copy and paste – it really is that simple.
Table Of Contents
What You Will Learn
- How to increase traffic to your website free of charge
- How to build new backlinks automatically
- How to improve your content
- My personal results when I implemented this strategy
The Forgotten Sharing Tool
Copy and pasting is one of the most powerful sharing tools on the web. Its the internet equivalent of word of mouth marketing.
Whether someone wants to share your website content in an email, social media or a blog post – it’s likely they will use the copy and paste function.
In the past month alone…
135,656 page views has seen content leave my site 5,762 times via copy/paste.
That means 4.3% of my traffic is highlighting my content, copying it and then pasting it somewhere else.
The problem with that, is more often than not they don’t link back to my page.
So how do we harness the power of the most powerful sharing tool on the web to increase traffic to your website free?
Increase Traffic To Your Website Free With 33Across
33Across (formerly known as Tynt) is a free service that helps you harness the power of copy/pasting once and for all!
It tracks the copying/pasting of your content across the web and provides reports.
It has a bunch of neat features-
- Tracks number of content copys
- Tracks number of new backlinks generated
- Tracks traffic coming from copy/pasting
- Adds social media sharing button pop ups
- Identifies keywords/phrases people used to leave your site (more below)
How Does It Work?
Whenever someone copys a piece of text or image from your site, 33Across will automatically add a backlink to the page the content was copied from.
For example if I copy some text from this post and then paste it into a new email, this is what happens-
You’ll notice it has automatically added a unique link to the post, optionally you could also automatically add a link to your Twitter profile or Facebook page as well.
Try it out for yourself – just highlight this line of text hit copy and paste it into something to see it in action for yourself.
This is truly a great method to get free backlinks & traffic for your website!
Setting Up 33Across Is Easy
Just sign up for a free 33Across account.
You will be given a piece of Javascript code that you need to paste into the header of your site.
Make sure you are installing the SiteCTRL script–
They provide instructions for most platforms including WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr & Joomla.
Once you have added the code jump back to 33Across and test the installation. If your using a caching plugin, don’t forget to clear caches first!
Once you’ve done that the installation is complete!
33Across is now up and running =D
Tinkering With 33Across
Next jump over to Settings > SiteCTRL Settings to tinker with things a bit!
There are a few options for you to configure here so I’m just going to show you how I have it setup.
Attribution & SEO Link
This is the setting that automatically adds a backlink to your site and an optional link to your Twitter profile or Facebook page.
The settings are pretty self explanatory but here is a screenshot of mine-
Once setup it will automatically add links into copy/pastes!
This is the only 33Across feature that I have enabled, but feel free to experiment with the others below.
Address Bar Tracking
Personally I have this turned off because it adds the unique # reference to the end of URLs in the browser address bar.
I think it looks a bit strange and might be off putting to the average user.
Plus if someone is copying/pasting your URL – your still going to get the traffic/benefits of that anyway.
SpeedShare Widget
This is another feature of 33Across I don’t use on the blog but you might find it handy.
When someone copys text it automatically pops up social sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Linked and Google+
It will also add Pinterest buttons to images when people hover over them.
My 33Across Results So Far!
Let’s take a look what that tiny bit of Javascript I copy/pasted has done for the blog in the past 30 days with 33Across!
What Is Being Copied?
You can instantly see how many times your content has been copied. It tracks text and images breaking it down page by page.
As you can see I have URL copy tracking disabled.
If you look at the top 5 at the bottom – it’s amazing to see just how many times people have copied text/images in the last 30 days!
Website Traffic
33Across has helped to bring a total of 376 unique visitors and 492 page views to the blog in the last 30 days.
That alone is worth the 60 seconds work it took to setup!
You can get more detailed statistics showing you which posts brought the most 33Across based traffic.
You can dive a little deeper and get more detailed statistics about each page.
Just click on the page you want to learn more about-
This will also tell you where the traffic has come from as well.
Social Traffic
You can also get statistics on how the automatically inserted link to your Twitter/Facebook profiles performed.
In the past 30 days I have had 47 extra visitors to my Twitter profile through other peoples copy/pasting efforts!
How To Increase Backlinks To Your Website
33Across has also detected 8 new backlinks due to copy/pasting in the last 30 days.
The only problem with this is someone has to click the link to your site from the linking page in order for 33Across to detect a new backlink has been created.
So this isn’t the most reliable metric and the actual number of created backlinks is more than reported as not all of them will get clicked.
Inbound & Outbound Keywords
This is one of the coolest features of 33Across in my opinion. It shows you which keywords were used to not only bring people to your site, but also to leave your site.
Knowing which terms/phrases your users are copying to search for more information on is a gold mine!
Pay attention to the keywords on the right hand side here. These are the terms people are highlighting on your site to search for more information.
The Majestic SEO & SEO Spyglass ones suggest I need to create reviews for those tools.
Where as the ahrefs (free/paid) – 11,227 & backlinkwatch (free) – 1,517 keywords are actually headers from this article telling me I need to make those headers links.
The backlink checkers one is another good example. I created a case study to find the best backlink checker so I need to go back and add an internal link to that post!
Hopefully your seeing just how useful that is – just a shame they only show data from the past 24 hours :(
The Only Problem
When I first deployed 33Across (formerly known as Tynt) I was worried it would annoy some readers, but luckily I haven’t had a single complaint about it.
The one person it does annoy though is me.
When I publish a post I often copy/paste the title into social media updates, newsletters, updating signatures in forums and so on.
But when I do that it automatically adds in the link to the post and my Twitter profile which gets annoying.
However if you go into settings and scroll to the bottom you can use the local opt out feature to stop that from happening.
Wrapping It Up
33Across is free for anyone to use and helps you get the most out of your traffic.
It takes less than 60 seconds to setup and you only have to do it once, its set & forget.
I originally set it up in October 2013 and in the past 30 days alone I was able to-
- Get an extra 492 new unique visitors
- Get 47 visitors to my Twitter profile
- Get 8 new backlinks
- Find out what my users want
- Learn how to improve the blog
Not a bad investment of time huh? And it’s 100% free!
Please leave a comment below and let me know if you set it up for your site and how it performs for you.
352 Responses
It is such a wonderful tips. It’s so helpful. Thank you for share your knowledge.
No problem – Hope it helps.
An awesome tip. I will follow now.
Great news! Always apply what you learnt if you want to get results!
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Thank you, Anurag- Glad you liked my content!
Great article Matthew
Thanks for sharing
No worries!
Very useful information.
I have followed you for a while now and have set up some great Fiverr gigs from your 36 choices.
These are making good money and I had to quit my job to get all the orders done.
I need to outsource some of these orders now.
Great stuff as always. Keep it coming.
Congratulations, Erlend!
Keep up the good work.
Very informative. Thanks for sharing.
No problem, Dali!
This is cool. 33Across testing on now for me..got to sign up and probably write a review on how it feels.
Hey Samuel. Let us know how it goes for you.
Would be nice to hear your feedback!
Thank you so much
No worries!
Works for me so fat! Thanks for always great content Matthew!
Awesome news. Thanks
Lovely article, thank you very much Matthew. I wish you all the best.
Thanks a lot Stefan – hope this proves helpful :)
Definitely I will implement this tool in one of our websites and see how it helps our backlinking activities. If it will improve our site performance, then we will implement this to the rest of our websites.
Thanks Matthew for sharing your knowledge and expertise on this field.
Regards and more power!
Sam
Thanks Sam – hope it goes well for you!
Awesome post! Definitely putting it to use on my own site.
Glad to hear it David
Thank for sharing Matthew , Always new methods
Thanks Nazil
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Thanks for the awesome article !
Happy to help Chris
Very nice article !
Thanks a lot!
It’s difficult to find well-informed people on this topic, but you seem like you know what you’re talking about!
Thanks
Thanks Furud – I like to think so :)
It’s awesome designed for me to have a site, which is helpful designed for my experience.
thanks admin
No problem at all! Hope you can start building your traffic levels.
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You understand a whole lot its almost tough to argue with you (not that I really will need to?HaHa).
You definitely put a brand new spin on a topic which has been written about for a long time.
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Great… I love this idea. I will definitely work on it.
Let me know how you get on!
Hello Matthew,
That is an amazing ways to get backlink! And tools mention are good to try.
I will definitely give it a go for my website.
Thanks for sharing it.
No problem, let me know how it works for you!
Thanks Matthew
No worries David
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thanks for the comment mate
Thanks for this great information, it was so helpful.
Bernard, helpful is my middle name. Thanks for reading
Thanh Master Matthew Woodward !Very good
I like the sound of that
thanks for the article. I’ll definitely give it a try.
Thanks for reading Erez!
great post with full of information. thanks
Thanks Ahmed!
Many things know about create backlink. Thank you for posting such kind of article.
No worrys Mahan!
I use this way to protect my content from copy paste thanks for the info
Yes it is great for that
wow nice post read after post using 33across
Let us know how you get on
Interesting and new way of increasing backlinks :) Awesome content!
Thanks Natalie :)
I have read many articles regarding tips of increasing traffic on website, after reading this and implementing things i have got changes.
I hope it works out for you :)
Great Article…… I read your all blogs they always give relevant information and knowledge to me.
No problem Udit!
Tynt’s copy and paste tracking and backlink support is really useful feature for many bloggers to grow their site traffic. This tool ensures your brand travels with your content wherever it is pasted. And it makes it more likely that users will source your content when sharing via the clipboard. The best thing about it is we can use it for FREE!
I love free tools :)
I have just tried out with your tutorial, Matthew and like the many other tutorials I have read here…it did worked magic for me. :)
Actually, I stumbled on this post early in the early hours of yesterday but I wanted to be sure it would work for me, so I registered and followed the procedures and in less than an hour ago, I saw the effect.
Thanks for always showing up to share all these many information with us. You are the best!
Anil
No problem Anil, I’m glad it had a positive uplift for you!
This is incredibly clever Matthew. Sometimes we find ourselves working too hard to get backlinks. If you paste copied content that link pops up for you; good deal.
I may try this on Quora for much easier linking because folks there are always looking for strong follow up resources to better understand the answers to your questions.
Thanks for sharing!
Ryan
No problem Ryan, glad to be of service :)
Thanks, matt. I saw this post a bit ago and forgot to implement it. Doing that now. You rock.
No problem Matt :)
Wow, I happy to find this! I have been looking for a tool like this for a while now. THANKS!
No problem Izikeezy :)
Awesome tool 33Across ( Tynt). I have installed it and it is working fab.
Thank you for sharing this tutorial.
No problem Roft!
Thnx Matt…..for yur article. i have installed SiteCTRL & its working.Also Keep posting good work ..
is there any tool to check spam link. Or any article to reduce spam score.
Please use the search box :)
Another Nice post from you Matthew and I think put it to good use and get Excellent results.
No problem :)
What a great find. I now have this on my site, thanks again for your backlinks tip.
No worrys
Thanks Matthew.
No problem :)
Hi Thank you very much for sharing this tutorial
Glad to help!
i will try this awesome trick thanks for sharing.
No worrys Akansha!
very nice tool is that, but what if the people remove the links, or copy paste it to some txt tool and than paste it to the website. Thanks
Well you can’t stop that from happening
As Mathew said though, he hasn’t had any complaints about it yet ;)
I loved !
Congratulations Matt.
Thanks Vania!
Hi Matthew, Great article – However, I would have thought that when someone’s copy pasting your content, they would also delete the link that gets put in ? In that case, it would not show in the stats, am I right?
That is correct
It means ineffective against intelligent scrapers as well as their new scraping bots.
Yes you are ri8 dear
Hi Matthew,
I think it’s not a bad idea at all to have this tool if one has quality content that others might want to copy.
I would certainly like to have it implemented to increase my traffic and backlinks.
Thanks for this great post.
No problem, it’s a win win situation in my opinion!
Thanks Matthew, I was looking for this solution since a long back.
No problem Aditya!
Very great website traffic. But I have one question. as in this way the traffic on my games Android. If there are such sites, preferably free. please write me an email. Thank you
I have never really worked in app promotion sorry =/
Hey Matthew,
Glad to read your wonderful experience. Yet, I’ve not used 33Across but curious to understand it potential. You have very nicely makes us understand mechanism of 33Across and hope it will very beneficial to maximize productivity level.
Now-a-days, it is very important for anyone to promote their content on social platform for better audience engagement. Thanks for sharing.
With best wishes,
Amar kumar
No problem Amar, I hope you put it to good use and get great results!
I’ve just set this up Matthew, thanks!
Any tutorial you share where it takes next to no time to set up and we gain some value in return is pure gold in my opinion.
Thanks :)
Dan
Yeah they are the golden gems for sure!
Excellent post with full of information. I will definately try out Tynt to see how it works and who are going to copy my content.
You mean 33Across :P Not Tynt ^^
just installed the application BUT:
when the other party does copy-paste and the referring link pops out in the end – it can still remove that link manually and post my work without the referring link! ! :(
Or maybe I am missing something…
Yes it can be manually removed
Many times i though how exactly it works and was with the expectation that this is kind of paid plugin or something, forgot about it. But you made it very simple and meaningful for us of how this exactly works.
Just to tell you i got your post notification by email and i found almost all of them very tricky and useful stuffs to use as a SEO Marketer. You are doing great help to the SEO community and i would like you to be my Guru :)
Nope it is entirely free :) and you shouldn’t believe in Gurus, you should believe in hard work :)
Awesome stuff! thank you for sharing the info on Tynt, it’s a brilliant tool.
Cheers!
*33Across :P
will it work for https wordpress sites
Yes :)
Hi, Matthew,
This is another good idea from you.
But if we use the tool don’t you think we may also end up getting links from unwanted sites like poor/penalized blogs too?
In my opinion those who copy paste information on their blog without giving credit to the source are more likely to be the owners of risky(duplicate) sites.
My experience is the more people that syndicate your content, the better – as long as your pegged as the original source!
Thanks buddy,
Your comment now gives me confident :)
Does this work if your site has an SSL cert? Tynt didn’t work on my site when I went with SSL.
Yeah just change the script to call https instead of http
Thanks Matthew… much appreciated.
No problem Peter!
Cool post dude. I had a look at their site seems interesting. This tool can be useful for content marketing.
Yeah it’s an awesome free tool!
Thank for tip. I should try this one.
No problem Chris
Anything you can do to ad just that much more benefit to the hard work involved with creating and publishing high quality content. This is a great share, thanks for putting this out there Matthew
No worrys Tylor
Matthew,
Great article and showing how to track the results! Quick question: If I were to use a service like Snip.ly when sharing authoritative articles on social media – since it permits the call to action button to drive some of the readers back to my desired landing page – then is there any way to generate backlinks from those efforts? The 33Across (Tynt) is a great way to drive visitors & backlinks from blog posts which were my own content; but I wanted to know if there is anything you recommend for doing the same when sharing helpful/authoritative 3rd party content such as when using Snip.ly or similar service?
Keep up the great work!
Hmmm I’m not sure but you should try it because chaining those would be great
every single blog post of yours is worth reading, i must say a big thank you to my friend that directed me to your blog. Henceforth i will be a dedicated reader, but first of all let me try and build some backlinks form the steps you gave.
Thanks, I try my best :)
I really need that, but how could I have know it existed? Thanks Matthew once again for the great tool review. Am installing it in one of my sites right away
No problem Mark :)
Thanks, Mathew for sharing this useful tool, I have a question. Is it useful in case of Content scraping? as bot used there are now more intelligent. Our site ranking was destroyed due to this. Some spammer used hacked sites copied our content and does some cloaking etc and got all of our ranking. 100 posts from our blog in which 2 are top posts and round about 10 are on first page. When we loose our ranking we think it was Fred update(Google’s Algorithm update of March 2017) but it was content scrappers.
What else have you done to determine it was content scraping causing the problem?
We checked in Google Search results and In “Links to Your Site” section of Google Webmaster Tools(verified a lot of scrapers from there). We also checked all our links in SERPs where scrapers site are indexed but our links are de-indexed. In security Plugins a lot of spam bots most of them known to be scrapers bots were also identified and blocked. But our ownership of content in Google’s court is still an issue.
Note: Scrapers are using hacked domains to index our content with the help of cloaking.
Solution Mr Matt?
Is your domain recognised as the original source?
In some links we have ownership but some posts are totally de-indexed. And scrapers posts are indexed.
Wow! :) I remember this tool back when it was still named Tynt.
I actually ended up disabling it just because it annoyed me like crazy (the same thing you say annoys you — glad to know there’s a workaround)!
(And I also hated the fact that people were stealing my images! Not knowing what’s being stolen is better for your mental health, lol. =) )
Thanks for reminding me of Tynt (now 33Across — weirdest name, btw), Matthew. I think I’ll give it another go.
Best,
Louie
Hahaha yeah, you see the trick is to be really really bad at Photoshop and then no one will steal your images. Works great for me :)
Great tool and thanks for the article. Looks like I’m too late to the Tynt party, they’ve been taken over by a website filled with more corporate jargon than I’ve ever seen in my life. Can’t find the service you described sadly.
Tynt is now called 33Across
Hey Matt, thanks your the article, I’ll try it.. I hope it really works.
No worrys tobi
Really easy to implement , Thanks for the info
No problem Vinod!
Hi Matt, thanks your share, I’ll try it in my blog. I hope it really work :)
Let us know how you get on!
Thanks Matt for this traffic generation technique, We’ll try it on our Blog.
Please let me know how you get on Yuri!
My personal experience is that people delete the links from copied content. But I think there will be instances when they don’t care and paste and publish without removing the link.
I would like to give it a try for sure. Thanks for sharing the tool Matthew.
Is tynt ust a free tool or there is a limited free version?
That’s not always the case, and the dashboard shows you the traffic you get via those links.
This is a free tool
Very nice tool!! Implementing was fast and easy!! Does anyone know of a site to trade links with other bloggers or trade guest writing/articles with other bloggers?
I’ll approve this so people can get in touch with you :)
They’we moved over to 33across.com, though it’s powered by the same system, some menus have changed here and there, but it’s basically the same system. Long time ago I used to have a whos.among.us widget which offered some of tyn’ts functionality. I’m glad to see they’ve evolved.
Yes nothing has really changed and if you already have the code on your site you dont need to do anything
This is great tool to get instant website traffic. Which is easy and simple to do immediately. Recently i used this tools which was very simple to use and i get more than 30 backlinks from this.
Yeah it is a great little tool :)
Hi Matt, I am a new follower of your blog and I have spent a lot of time reading your articles that interest me.
But this tool seems to have been around for awhile now..?
I am really surprised that I was unaware of it till now.
Thank you very much for sharing this information. I have got to get it on my sites fast..?
You are doing a great job, I have started to implement some of the tips that you have suggested for promoting and increasing traffic to my sites.
Cheers, Patrick.
Yeah this is a golden oldie :)
Hi Matt,
Thanks for this interesting post. I tried to copy and paste a part of this article and didn’t get the reference. It seems that you stop to use this app? Is that right?
If yes, is that because you found problems using it? Thanks for sharing your experience.
When I rolled out the new theme design I forgot to take care of this and to this day I have still forgotten but I will be readding it :)
i dont know man from where you are bringing these content to your mind but i must say this is just mind blowing fu***ng awesome ! “)
Glad you enjoyed it :)
lovely skils
Thanks Kyla
Hey Mat,
I really like the idea of this tool. But when I copy some of your text from an article, there’s no backlink generated.
Does some browser block these kind of scripts or do I have an extension which is blocking it?
Greetings
Its because I deployed a new theme recently and haven’t integrated a few scripts yet
Great piece of software. Thank you, Matthew.
No problem :)
Hello Matt,
As usual, the free info I get from your site have been great & very helpful.
I just developed this site, and would want to contact you soon for premium service.
Thank you so much.
Thanks Tony, ready when you are :)
Time to skim-read = < 5 minutes
Time to implement = < 5 minutes
Done. Installed, set up, tweaked. Set. Forget (ish).
Many thanks for letting me know about Tynt. That is now implemented.
No problem :)
I particularly like the fact that it sends an email each month with the summary of the reports, which acts as a reminder to go check the online reports, to see what has been copied in the last month
I dont even do that, true set and forget :)
Hi Matthew,
Value as always. This is being implemented right now. It will be interesting to find out how much of my work is going elsewhere, uncredited!
I’m pushing your SEO competition too and getting some positive feed back on that.
Regards,
Steven Lucas
Much appreciated Steven thanks =D
Great informative post.
Thanks :)
I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW YOU WERE DOING THAT!!! Thanks Matt, awesome, awesome info as always. I am one of that 4.3% by the way lol. Thanks buddy.
haha good to know =D
I think it’s great that the link to the source article is in the copy/paste but the promotion of your twitter account is annoying:P No worries, I’ll cut it out.
I think thats an option you can disable
I did this a while ago and I’m pretty sure that the script affected my site’s speed and performance, but again, I’m not exactly sure as it was a while ago.
Anyway, this is only an effective strategy for certain scenarios. For example, in your case, lots of your traffic/audience comes from and participates in “forums” – and when it comes to forums, a general rule is to reference the site of where you got the content from. As you know, this type of behavior is common at the forums, thus making this a good strategy if lots of your traffic/audience are forum-ers.
It’s a very very lightweight piece of javascript so it’s unlikely to have had an impact on load time but I would advise you to test it.
My site is pretty fast and has a whole bunch of external calls beyond this
Sounds interesting, I’ve never heard of this before.
I’ll try and set it up tonight.
Thanks Matthew.
Thanks
It is a great tool and it can be so useful but sometimes it gets a bit annoying. For example when you try to copy part of your content in order to paste it somewhere else.
Anyway, looking at your stats it looks it can provide good numbers :-). I have one question about it; does it work with those automatic scripts that publish your content from the RSS? Would it include the link on those copied post as well?
Thanks for your content as always!
Yeah that is annoying but I can live with it for the benefit it offers :)
Yes you could do that with RSS
Hi Matt,
Great tool thanks for highlighting it, I’ve put it in my notes of a long line of stuff to be researched haha! That’s the problem when you keep giving great advice :)
I was wondering what your thoughts on the risks of this tool were though in relation to Google? Copied content with a followed link back could look like syndication ezine style if a big enough pattern is created?
Thanks,
Pete.
No need to put it on a long list, takes a couple of minutes to setup.
I’ve not had any Google issue myself and my content gets copied a lot.
Thanks Matt, I will get it installed when I’m back at the desk on Monday.
Both you and Matthew Barby gave the same answer with regards to copied content with a link back (not kw anchor of course) so I reckon that’s safe enough for me haha!
Cheers,
Pete.
Just checked. When I copy/paste a piece of your content there’s read more: http… so still working. Nice! They improved tracking?
To be honest I’ve not really checked in on it that much, just let it do its thing!
Hello Matt,
its very cool i am giving it a try. thanks for sharing :)
Good luck =D
Slightly off topic here Matt, but you seem to have spam comments on here (jitu, Mohinder as examples) with their (spammy) websites under their names. Do these links out damage your site in Big G’s eyes? Even if they’re ‘no follow’?
Well search traffic is always increasing but it is on my list to clean up :)
Hey, Matt,
That’s all cool, but alas tynt doesn’t support Cyrillic (and i suppose other non-English) domain names. Do you happen to have an alternative that does support unicode domain names?
Ahhh I don’t sorry :(
Really smart strategy. I enjoyed reading your post very much.tweet….
Thanks for the share!
Ahhhhh! I got all excited, signed up, then realised you can’t do it if your site is hosted on WordPress.com – upsetting.
Great post, though!
Yeah that is very restricting indeed, I would move it personally
Hey Matt – Awesome article as always. This is really powerful and I have been looking for something like this for a while. I don’t mind if people copy my stuff, as long as I get credit and or a link back.
good stuff!
No worrys :) It’s all part of the creative process
I am the first visitor of your site , but it is more proud able thing is that i always learn something good from your blog.really it is very nice to read.
thanks for this kind info.
No worrys :)
Great job Thank you M. I tested copying of images but it does not provide any links
Well I suppose it would create an image link if they used the original URL
Great insight, will defo try it out on some of my accounts. will be interesting to see
Good luck :)
I downloaded the pdf by sharing this article on my twitter. Thanks for sharing such kind information for free.
No worrys :)
Very cool seo tricks,,,
Thank you bro!
No worrys
nice post i am going to try tity
Good luck :)
Very fantastic post. I really enjoyed reading it. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work
No worrys hope it helped you out!
I use Linux and love the copy/paste alternative it uses. You just select the text to copy it and then you paste it with middle mouse button. That is also why I like my Lenovo Thinkpad laptop – it has middle button on the trackpad.
I tried this on your page and Tynt doesn’t catch me copying text. But for majority of visitors it’s a nice tool.
Thanks for advice
I’ll find a way to get you :P
I was often wondering how a major news website was doing this and I never really poked my head into it. Silly me.
Cheers for this post.
Now you know :)
Will this also put in links when some scraping tools pick them up for spam? If yes, that could prove to be counterproductive these days.
No because it uses Javascript and scraping tools wont respect that :)
Hi, Great tip, but i really don´t know how good or bad that can be for SEO, you don´t really know who is linking back to you, what kind of neighborhood your site is going to be linked from, and also if so many people is copying/pasting your content, you better bet they will not attribute the content to you, anyway, is a great idea to know what people is doing in your website, how are they behaving, and the best, track, track everything you can.
Thanks
BTW, i just voted for you, you are ahead by several votes! congs,!!!
You can probably assume a link generated from a manual copy/paste is going to be of higher quality than a scraper site
Thanks for the votes!
Matt,
If you still need help with your problem, let me know and I can sort you out. I believe I can show you how to not have the functionality affect you when you cut and paste from your own site. And no, it doesn’t involve cookies. It is a more permanent solution.
That sounds sweet to me!
Hi Matt! :D
After reading your post i gave the try with Tynt in one of my blogs and it DID WORK! (actually all the stuff that I read from your blog does work LOL) In about one week I had few shares and one very good backlink from somebody that copied my content to his website.
So today I have implemented Tynt in 6 of my blogs… Will give you feedback on this after a couple of weeks.
Thanks a lot for the post mate!
Cheers
Thats great to hear :) Let us know how you get on with the other blogs ^^
Hi Matt,
This is awesome content. I am just getting started with building my site and I will use this. Thanks again!
Don
Let us know how you get on :)
Wow, Matthew, very nice tool. I am going to try this out at my website. It probably does not work at wordpress dot com sites like my blog. Thanks for this cool device.
Yeah you can use it on both of those platforms, they provide instructions in the back end.
Hi Matt,
I started using Tynt about two months ago…it’s a great little tool that is easy to use.
As you mentioned once you copy and paste the code into your WordPress site it does all the work for you. There’s absolutely no reason not to use it.
Your tutorials will help me better read the stats from it. Thanks very much for sharing, have a great day.
Nice to hear its helping – how much traffic/links has it brought for you?
A quick question:
I am building links from social networks, blogger.com andservices like twellow and twittercounter. And I’ve yet to see any of them arrive at ahrefs.com!
Whats the problem? The links are dofollow, hasn’t ahrefs found them yet? It’s been a couple of weeks…
Hi,
I would assume they haven’t found them yet – the internets a big place you know :P
Yeah, I guess so.
What do you think, Matt, should I use any pinging services to accelerate the indexing of these links?
Thanks and keep up your great blog,
Maxim
I tend not to use pinging services and just build links to things to get them indexed
I like to read your post onmy phone. But the subscribe. Bix keeps popping up blocking the view. Can you fix that? Thanks for the great artucle. (Obviously I already subscribed)
Will take a look thanks!
Great little trick! However it always adds the Address Bar Tracking on my site I made the standard account with. Later I created a rollup account so you can add multiple domains and those dont display the tracking in the url.
You can create the rollup account in account settings. Anyone else with this issue?
I have found it takes around 12 hours for your settings changes to take effect, I just change them and then clear caches next morning and voila!
I am already using it for more than 1 year on one of my sites and it really helps in getting etra traffic and links. I got around 1300 links because of tynt.
Who doesn’t like free links ^^
Great share Matt! Going to definitely use this!
Yours loyal fan
Walt :)
No worrys, thanks Walt :)
Strange I just tried copying the text from this page to word, outlook, msn live & google etc. I do not see the link.
Do you have javascript enabled?
Excellent tip and amazing tool. I will copy you and use Tynt.
Thank you !!!
Let me know how it works out for you!
Awesome post as usual Matt :)
I did not heard about Tynt before but it looks like an awesome tool.I will start using it on some of my niche sites.
Thanks for letting us know about Tynt.
No worrys hope it helped you out John!
Wow, Matt.
What an awesome and powerful tool. I’ve seen Tynt in action before but I didn’t know what it was. Now I do and I’ll def have to give it a try.
Thanks for sharing this cool info with us. :)
Ti
No worrys – hope it helps you out :)
Hey Matthew,
Another awesome post! I read your blog everyday and its like a religion for me for all the awesome things you teach about SEO.
I see you are coming out with a new product. Can you give any details about it? And when will it be released?
Thanks very much :)
The only details I can reveal is it will be free ^^
Something that I haven’t heard of before but will go away now and do more research to see how useful it is to me in my niche.
Let me know how you get on with it!
Its seems like an awesome tool. I am just learning of it but I will try it to see if it really works as has been described.
I have shared this comment in kingged.com where this post was found.
Sunday – kingged.com contributor
http://www.kingged.com/how-to-increase-traffic-build-links-automatically-in-60-seconds/
Thanks for the share :)
Looks great! The only issue I would have is that the links would look pretty ugly embedded in the middle of an article.
It adds them to the end of the copy
Nice review of what looks like a pretty good service. I’m off to install it on my blog right now :-)
Be interesting to see how many copy/pastes you get on this very post from your ‘try it out’ call to action. I certainly did!
haha hadn’t thought of that – 210 so far :)
Ended up installing it on Friday and just logged in to have a shifty at the stats for the weekend. Surprising amount of copies and it also says I have picked up an ‘SEO link’ in the process.
Thanks again for sharing!
Winning! Nice to hear its helping
I have Tynt set up on some older sites but kind of forgot about it! Pretty silly of me not to have it the sites I really am working hard on!
Thanks for the reminder.
Check out your stats be interesting to see how its performed for you!
if I put the code on ‘home page’, will it work for other pages of my site? do I need different code for different domain or I use the same code in all domain ?
Thanks for sharing this post
Hi,
Each site will require a seperate Tynt account
Hey Matt,
thanks for keeping the good info coming; although I’d like to hear your take on newest Penguin update and it’s connection to Web 2.0’s.
To stay on topic, I added the script to my site and I can’t work around that unique # reference – it keeps showing, even though I followed your instructions. First I though it has something to do with WPEngine, as they don’t allow a lot of stuff. Then I remembered that you use them as well :)
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Hi,
Make sure address bar tracking is turned off then wait for a few hours and clear WPEngine caches.
Tynt seems to take a while to update the settings =\
Hi,
This line “Tynt is a free service that helps you hardness the power of copy/pasting once and for all!” just under the heading “Introducing Tynt”, should the word be hardness or harness?
Cheers.
Nice spot, fixed thanks :)
Great post Matt, will certainly look further into using Tynt. Think even I can copy and paste.
Steve.
You would be surprised how many cant ^^
Ah, so that’s how it’s done haha!
Hadn’t seen Tynt before :) I’ve gone and set it up on my blog as well now, thank you kind sir #HatTip
We always be learnin =D
Thanks for sharing! I’m going to set this up for some of my sites and see how it does. I’m wondering how many people just delete the link that it adds, though. I would think that if some random extra text showed up when people paste what they copied then they would just delete it.
I guess I’ll just have to try it for myself and find out! haha
Yeah there is that possiblity – if your only copying a short sentence you’ll probably notice but anything longer probably not.
As long as its bringing traffic =D
Nice. But I am worried about scrapers taking the content and spraying it all across the web and penguin screwing things up bcoz we have links from all sorts of places.
Scrapers will do that anyway =/ Not a whole lot you can do about it
Awesome Tool.. I will definitely try this!!!
Thanks Mat :)
Hope it helps!
Awesome Matthew!
I think Tynt can be helpful and at the same time you only need a matter of seconds to install it. Now that is easy! So far I haven’t think of using Tynt before, but now I think it would be a great advantage!
Thank you for sharing such good information!
I found and “kingged” this on the Internet marketing social site Kingged.com
and its freeeeee =D
Seems to be great tool but is it safe with Google Adsense? I just got my Hosted Adsense Account that running on my site. Please clear me…
Thanks
No idea, don’t see why it wouldnt be though?
Did my comment get caught in the spam filter?
Nahh I just hand’t approved yet :)
re: “the only problem”
You can actually ‘opt-out’ of Tynt at the browser level here:-
tynt.com/opt_out.php
So you can effectively turn it off just for yourself (it’s a blanket ‘all sites using Tynt’ though rather than just your own though).
Apart from as an internet marketer I clear my cookies a gazillion times a day :P
I used to use Tynt too, but found it annoying. It can get you an extra bit of traffic, but I doubt any links built through the service are going to carry much weight.
Well thats the great unknown – they can get pasted anywhere!
wow thanks for sharing buddy.
No worrys :)
Great share Matt,
I was only looking the other day for a tool like this! I’ve created my account and installed the script, will give it a whirl.
– Lewis :)
Let me know how you get on!
Thanks for the tutorial Matt, I installed it :D
hustle hustle =D
Damn, this is good shit! What’s the quality of the links you’ve picked up? All I get is scraper sites linking back to my blog using hundreds of sitewide links, all with the same anchor text.
-Casey
Mainly from forums and social media
Awesome post Mat :) I have had this in the back of my mind for sometime and was going to do some searches to see if a tool like this exists. Thanks for doing the “digging” :)
Haha no worrys its what I do :P
That is a very smart tool. Thanks!
=D
Wow, that title was a bit hype, until I’ve read the post, till the bottom.
Tynt. I’ve used it before. I can vouch for its impressive results.
I guess I’ll have to re-consider it, however, not all blogs work.
For example, I have some plugins on most of my niche blogs which protect the content from being copied. Tynt doesn’t work with these plugins, as far as I know.
Hey Matthew, I wonder if these extra 417 new unique visitors helped in terms of sales or clients. Did you track that?
Hi John,
I think the title delivered :)
I was going to go with How To Send Your Traffic Into Overdrive And Get More Backlinks Than You Can Shake A Stick At In 60 Seconds Or Less ^^
I can’t figure out a way to track that traffic directly because there are no redirects inplace and analytics doesn’t record the # references. I also checked if Aweber recorded them in the HTTP_Referer but no dice there either!
You could probably code a custom analytics event that regisers a user defined value, but I suck at coding :P
Awesome stuff! thank you for sharing the info on Tynt, it’s a brilliant tool.
Cheers!
No worrys :)
Hi Matthew,
Great tool you have shared here. Nice way to capitalize on another aspect of creating good content. Just wish there was a way to always get the back link and take away for the ability of the copier to remove it.
We can’t win them all =D
I heard about Tynt a few months back and its been on the list of things I should look into for a few of my larger content websites.
Reading this post, Matthew, has really given me the urge to push it to the top of the todo list and get it installed!
I have a lot of people copying parts of my content to forums, blogs and some tweets but generally I don’t get the link back, mention or the link will be broken and lead to a 404. So it really sounds like Tynt will help me with all of that.
Yeah its great for all of that – and the fact its so quick and easy to install, its almost rude not to :)
“Due to platform limitations, you cannot use Tynt on WordPress sites that are hosted on wordpress.com.”
well that’s disappointing…. :-(
I wouldn’t waste time building out a site that matters on wordpress.com anyway for the sake of cost of hosting/domains these days.
Wow Matt, excellent post, well done. This is the secret of top bloggers. I’m not talking about Tynt. I’m talking about more powerful stuff. It is power of discovering something brilliant and then sharing it on the blog. This posts people love most. If you discover something great and if I love it, I would be very happy to share it with my friends and collegues.
I should probably head over to Tynt now, to set up my account and see what will happen then.
Thank you for this Matt.
Hi,
Well what I’m pretty good at is extracting the most value out of any given situation and this is just an extension of that :)
Its not huge traffic numbers/backlinks – but its more than without ^^
An awesome tip. I will follow now. How do you create file pdf for this post?
I’m using http://www.printfriendly.com/browser_tool
Great tutorial. I’m one who has copied and pasted some of your content and did notice this little neat trick – thanks for sharing!
MWahahaha ^^
I’ve seen that used a lot – specifically on major media sites. I find it quite annoying personally, but I’ve never specifically stopped visiting a site because of it.
I always wondered what company it was that provided that service. What’s Tynt’s monetization strategy? Do you see any possibility that they will make this a paid service soon?
Hi,
Yeah it can be annoying but im hoping the annoyance level is at a minimum. Rather this than a stinking opt in pop up anyway!
Tynt has been around for years now so I’m not sure what they are planning!
Awesome write up! I’m going to have to check out Tynt. I’ve seen blogs and sites using something similar (or maybe even Tynt), but never looked to see how they were doing it. Very cool :)
winner winner chicken dinner :)
Thanks for sharing Matthew!
I was going to ask you how you did that, because I noticed it pasted the URL when I copied and pasted your content list for the Tiered Link Building process. :)
It’s also kind of handy for your readers because it helps remind them where they obtained the info, should they want to revisit the post or page.
All the best,
Matt
Ahhh I hadn’t actually thought of it like that and it might be doing users a favour by including the source =D
It is definitely a feature
Very cool, I’ll have to give that a try.
Cheers,
Let me know how you get on!
Great Idea, but it doesn’t seem to work with Https