I got an e-mail from Scot Smith of Meridiancrest.com yesterday letting me know that he was back to blogging and had redesigned his site. His new design is one of the better ones out there in my opinion, so major props to him on that.

When checking the new look at, I noticed something on his sidebar which I hadn’t seen on other sites before. He has a section called “Recent Reaction”, which are essentially back-links to other sites and blogs which have written and linked to his site a specific post on his site. He also has a small blurb underneath stating this:

“Good Idea: Get a free back-link automatically by leaving a comment or simply mentioning one of my posts on your blog.“

This simple concept allows him to promote others to write about his site, as their article will receive a link on all of his pages. This is an excellent way to build more linkbacks, more traffic, and increase your sites SEO stance.

Adding this feature is as simple as adding the get recent comments plugin, which also suppors the back-link feature. If you have this installed already, or you do install it, let me know how it has worked out for you. Have you seen more people linking back to your site? Or did it not make any difference?