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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?