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June 20, 2005Trackbacks
Trackbacks are an excellent way to form a blogging community. It's a way to see what posts you have inspired, and show people that you are reading what they're writing. It's a non-intrusive way of linking to something you've written about something somebody else has written.
For those of you who don't know, trackbacks work like this:
1) You read an interesting blog post, and decide you want to write something about that in your own blog.
2) After posting about it in your own blog, go to original article and search for their article’s trackback URL.
3) Insert that trackback URL into your own blog management system trackback notification system.
4) A notification to the original blog will insert a link to your post to appear on the original blog article.
5) The blogger of that original post will often receive a notification as well, via email, about how blogged about their blog, and sent a trackback.
However, some blogging software does not support trackbacks. Here is a link so you can do it manually:
http://www.forret.com/tools/trackback.asp
Some are skeptical of manual trackbacks because some spammers use them when they aren't actually linking to that person's blog post. However, when used correctly, they can be a good substitute if your blogging software doesn't offer trackbacks.
So, utilize the trackback function, everybody! They can come in very handy.
Posted by kristine at June 20, 2005 2:15 PM
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