What Is TrackBack?
The Wikipedia entry on Trackback explains TrackBack succinctly:
TrackBack is a mechanism for the communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack ping”; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry. This allows for conversations spanning several blogs that readers can easily follow.
For more information on TrackBack, see the aforelinked article or see what Google has to say about it.
- 30 Jun 02
- blogging, movable type, software
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Thanks for that explanation; I have seen a lot of posted opinions on TrackBacking, but everyone that did the writing just assumed that it was well known. I use MT also, and upgraded just to get access to TrackBacking; now I might actually be able to use it! BTW, I’ve been to the MT trackbacking blog, but the blog format throws me; it seems they should have their information written out in a more traditional way; at the least, when people new to TrackBacking go there for information, they shouldn’t have to search through technical entries. Just a peeve.
Alex Gittens on 27 Sep 02