A week or so ago, I quit trying to figure out what trackbacks are, and went ahead and authorized them on my blog.
I did so mainly so that when I got some, maybe I could figure out what they are.
But I haven’t gotten any bites. I’ve had 700 comments in the past week (a definite record; HALF that number of letters to the editor would be a really big week), but no trackbacks. And yeah, I’ve looked up definitions, but they fail to enlighten me.
They have something to do with blogs referring to each other. I refer to other blogs all the time, and they refer to mine, but still no "trackbacks."
Can anybody help me out? Of course, I’m not dismissing the possibility that once I DO find out what they are, I won’t want to have anything to do with them. We’ll see.
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Brad,
Trackbacks are a way for you to know when other folks link to your blog. It posts the link almost as a comment. I’ll show you.
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Brad, this post should make a trackback appear under your corresponding post. Lets see if it works!
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Rather, it lets you know when folks link to a particular post on your blog. To create trackback, you copy the trackback link into the appropriate field in the blogging interface.
See, it’s there now under “Trackbacks” …
Thanks. So should that happen whenever anybody links to it? People are linking to it all the time, usually. Maybe you’re the first in the last few days, since I activated the feature. Or — this is probably it — the other person has to approve the trackback, too. I think I did read that.
Not exactly true. It’s NSA’s way of keeping tabs on what is posted on this site in case one of you are a “person of interest” and you know what that means…
Brad,
Just linking to a post on your site doesn’t activate a trackback. However, if you want to see who is linking to your site, try going to http://www.technorati.com and entering your blog’s name/URL.
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