Use Trackback when Blogging
A "trackback" is one way for bloggers to communicate between their web-blogs. If another blogger wishes to share information on the article via their own web-blog, trackback will ping the original entry to notify the author of the response.
Steps
- Go to your own blog. Type up the information you wish to share with your readers.
- In the trackback field on your blog's entry page, enter in the URL of the article you are referencing.
- Note that the original blog will be notified. An excerpt of your own entry will be created in the original article's comments along with your entry's URL.
Tips
- In WordPress, trackback is found under the Advanced Editing (older versions) or Trackbacks (version 8.x+)
- In MoveableType, trackback is also called "URLs to ping"
- One of the major advantages of using trackback is they can be used as a discussion board, between different Websites communicating on similar interests and resources. The only problem of using trackbacks is that they are extremely vulnerable to spam.
- For applying trackback it is not necessary for the both sites to be physically linked with each other.
- Your own blog entries already have trackbacks enabled for other readers to comment remotely. When someone trackbacks to your blog their details will be listed under your own blog comments. A small title and the URL will be displayed that allows your readers to click to read more.
- Trackbacks and pingbacks are very similar and serve similar purposes. The difference is only technical. [reference]
- Trackback is not yet available on LiveJournal[1] (at May 2008).
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