May 02

Getting Started with Trackbacks

Technology terms are fancy and Trackback is no exception. I’ve heard of Backtrack and trackback sounded like backtrack in reverse. Since I’ve started blogging and trackback is an important feature I thought of invistigating a little more on it and this is what I found.

Briefly put trackback is a feature which informs a site that you are quoting them. I know it is pretty easy for me to put it in a sentence when I myself had trouble understanding it from Wikipedia. For those of you who still haven’t got what trackback is I have posted a couple links below with comments for you to follow.

The first place I looked was wikipedia and found an entry for trackback at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback

I was not very happy with their explination. Although it was accurate. I could not figure out what it actually did. Off I went exploring the links on the trackback external links section.

The first site I went to was

What is Trackback? by Tom Coates

It had a basic explanation of the concepts and how it works but again nothing on how to get it done and what sort or results it would produce.

On I went looking of other sites.

Finally I landed at

The Ultimate Trackback Help Guide

It had quite a nice explanation on how to get it done and also encouraged you to try a trackback from your blog. That’s exactly what I thought of doing and hence this post.

Happy Blogging.

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  1. kdays says:

    Hey Thomas

    Trackback received :)

    By the way, I love your theme. Great job.

    Cheers!

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