Trackbacks, Pingbacks : What are they?

Posted by Jaren
Posted on October 15, 2007
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Trackbacks, Pingbacks : What are they? Whenever I see them or hear them I usually nod my head in approval, and just brush it off, as if I know them and it’s not a big deal. but when it all boils down is I don’t really understand what’s their purpose. Until recently…

My Wordpress Blog gives me an option to use trackbacks and pingbacks.

Well Simply… trackbacks and pingbacks allow us to notify other blogs that our post is related to one of theirs. Then if the other blog, has trackbacks or pingbacks enabled, it will add a link to our article below the post which is related. If you want them to link back to you, because both of your post are related then you could use Trackbacks to your advantage use their trackback url so that you can place it in the TrackBack URI blank in your /wp-admin “Write Post” Section ( its usually down below) And those with enabled trackback will receive it. And can place a link to your article with an excerpt.

Pingbacks is much simpler to use and more secure. just check the “allow pings” and just put the links that you want to ping on your post. Wordpress will do this automatically if you checked the “allow pings” option. If those blogs the you’ve link to on your post have pingbacks enabled it will add a simple link to your site below their post.

But as we all know trackbacks are done manually and preferably we should use a simpler and more secure pingback, plus all we have to do is put the link in our blog for the pingback to work.

Doing an Experiment on Pingbacks you can Test the to see If they’re working…

We can test if the pingbacks are working by linking to me and providing a link to this post from your blog!

To test trackbacks … put this on your Wordpress Trackback field section..

http://jaren.cudilla.com/2007/10/15/trackbacks-pingbacks-what-are-they/trackback/

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Comments

10 Responses to “Trackbacks, Pingbacks : What are they?”

makoy on October 15th, 2007 12:48 am

I definitely would try that! Thanks for the tip. I’m also unfamiliar with trackbacks.

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monaco on October 30th, 2007 12:20 pm

tha’t the reason why i installed haloscan in my blog. the blogger platform does not have trackbacks, only backlinks which is a bit inferior as they don’t have the ping service.

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Jaren on October 30th, 2007 2:38 pm

Hi Monaco,
that’s the same problem I had when I tried using the blogger platform. That’s why I switched to wordpress.. then tried a self hosted Wordpress platfrom it’s so easy on Wordpress

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