Pingbacks and Trackbacks are two features of blogs. I’m still not sure about Trackbacks but i think I have Pingbacks sussed!
When you post an article to our blog any other blog articles you mention in your article are ‘pinged’ (contacted) as part of the publish process. If the blog you mentioned allows pingbacks then your mention of their article will appear as a comment on their site!! Confused? Here’s an example.
On a test blog: mattblog I have posted an article with a link to an article on our CLT blog. When I posted that message the CLT blog was notified via a ping and because the CLT blog allows pingbacks a comment was automatically added… if you take a look at the Multi user Blog Tools article on the CLT blog you will see 2 comments, including one that comes from my test mattblog!
In fact now there are 3 comments – one manual comment, one from mattblog and one from this article – an internal pingback!
Trackbacks
are more manual pingbacks (see earlier message)
When you write a blog message about an article in another blog you need to include a Trackback URL which you get from the other blog. The results is the same as a pingback – your blog message becomes a…