Thanks Top Hat...

Everyone...Blackhatters use Trackbacks as a major part of their linking strategy.

With trackbacks, it's possible to get 100's of links per hour. Think about this for a second.

There's too much BS for me to fully exploit trackbacks, but these blackhat trackback spammers are getting thousand of links in the time it takes you and I to get 1 or 2.

This is our competition.

I've tired a couple of the resources on Top's list:

SQUIRT Forum - $100 a month - They give away a trackback script. I couldn't get it to work and it has poor documentation. The members that did get it to work were programmers, and they reported complaints from bloggers.

TrackBack Spider - $97 a month. I joined and downloaded the software, read the "read me" and canceled my membership right away. I don't know if it works, but it was so complicated to set up, I didn't bother going any further.

Q for Top Hat - It seems to me that doing trackbacks the legit way using Technorati is an option that should be explored further.

Do you think that using Technorati in legit ways is an efficient way to get back links?