Title: Ping?  Trackback?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Ping? Trackback?

 *  Jk
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ping-trackback/)
 * I’m not a total noob, but what are these for? Can’t seem to find any info and
   they’re used like one should know what they “do” . . .
    anyone?

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 *  [Mark Jaquith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markjaquith/)
 * (@markjaquith)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ping-trackback/#post-93733)
 * A trackback is a short message sent from one site to another, letting that site
   know that something on their site was referenced.
    For example, you, on blog 
   A write an article talking about an entry on blog B. A trackback is sent from
   your blog to blog B telling it “Hey, Blog A talked about article X.” Blog B can
   then display the received trackback as a pseudo comment, and people reading the
   article on Blog B can click the trackback link to go to your article and see 
   what you said about the article on blog B.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ping-trackback/#post-93734)
 * I found some info on the Wiki just now. = ]
    [http://wiki.wordpress.org/PingBack](http://wiki.wordpress.org/PingBack)
   But thanks . . .so how is this done “automatically”? By email? I mean, how does“
   blog b” know you’re talking about it out of all the millions of pages on the 
   net? (sorry, probably a simple thing, but I’m not quite following).

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