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A trackback helps you notify another author that you wrote something related to what he had written on his blog, even if you don’t have an explicit link to his article. This improves the chances of the other author noticing that you gave him credit for something or that you improved upon something he wrote. With pings and trackbacks, blogs are interconnected. Think of them as the equivalent of acknowledgments and references at the end of an academic paper or chapter in a textbook.
If you link to other WordPress blog posts, they’ll be notified automatically using pings, so no other action is necessary.
How do I send a Trackback
Go to the post on the other person’s blog and look for the ‘Trackback URI’ or similar.
Once you have that link you need to copy the URL of the link.
In Firefox, Right-click on the link and Copy Link Location.
In Internet Explorer, Right-click on the link and Copy Shortcut.
Back on your blog, scroll down from the editor to the Trackbacks module and paste the URL into that box. If the blog where it was copied from is a WordPress blog, the URL will end with /trackback/.
Publish your post and the trackback will be sent. Please note that your trackback might be sent but the receiving site may choose not to display it.
Last modified: May 9, 2009
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