On Technology and Faith » blogging http://www.thomas.ramapuram.net "from Darkness to Light". What I learned from technology and my views on faith. Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:33:17 +0000 en hourly 1 Getting Started with Trackbacks http://www.thomas.ramapuram.net/getting-started-with-trackbacks/ http://www.thomas.ramapuram.net/getting-started-with-trackbacks/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 15:53:34 +0000 thomas http://thomas.ramapuram.net/?p=40 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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