Trackbacks – Remote Commenting on Blogs
The topic for today is trackbacks. What are they? What do they do? How do I use one?
Trackbacks are strange things. Blogs all over the internet have them enabled, but I’d bet a lot of the blog owners don’t have a clue what they are.
Here’s the short version. Trackbacks are citation systems for blogs. Trackbacks are also a system for remote commenting.
That’s how they’re typically explained, but that doesn’t help a whole lot, now does it?
So here are a few questions answered to get you started on understanding the trackback.
- What is a trackback and what does it do?
- Do all blogs support trackbacks?
- How can I create a trackback
- Why would I want to create a trackback?
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