Posted 1 year ago #
I have a blog and readers send me backtracks. Please explain what is a backtrack,how does one create and send one to a blog, the purpose of a backtrack, how it is used, how do i respond to backtracks i receive and if you have any useful links to helpful topics please send them to me.
Thanks.
John
Posted 1 year ago #
Try reading these:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback
It's basically a mechanism to notify someone's site that you've linked to one of their posts. In modern blogging systems you don't really have to do anything but link to the post. Once you hit publish that trackback notification gets sent.
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