How to leave a trackback ??
I have recently started blogging. And so far my experience with wordpress is good.
But there are lots of things that I need to know about blogging one of them being Trackbacks.
Each and every blog that I have read has a Trackback below the post.So what is a Trackback ? In short its a reference that you give to a post.
Say you are reading some interesting blog and you really like it.
Then you decide to write some thing similar to that topic and you do that beautifully ( Great job ).
Now you decide to give a reference to the blog that you were inspired from, this is where trackback comes into picture.
To leave a trackback you copy the link of the trackback( Each trackback has a url ) and past it below your post.
Once you do this the Original blog that you are referring will get the tap on the shoulder to let them know you have referenced them. In this case, you tracked back to a link about Trackbacks.
Thank you.
Hey Vish,
Thanks for that article! I have been blogging for 3 years now without being able to figure how the hell to leave trackbacks!
BTW, I thought this trackback-ing (or ping-back as it is sometimes referred to) was automated on wordpress. Meaning, if one wordpress blogger simple links to another wordpress blog within the post; the track-back will be shown on the second blog.
However, not sure how this works with blogger. I blog on blogger; and I have seen several cases where I linked to some other blog – but it never displayed as a trackback on that other blog. Similarly,other posts have linked to my blog – but it never displays as a trackback.