Nice Digg. I always wondered about that, I never saw the purpose in a blog, thinking "who would want to read about my boring day?", but I'm starting to see how it might be useful.
Trackbacks do indeed create visitors; it's like a comment that you leave from your own blog instead of on the person's whose story you read; you leave an excerpt on the track-backed site and the user can follow a link to read the whole post on your blog.The thing that interests me about trackbacks is that they draw on the primary point of HTML: hyperlinking terms to relevant documents. Unlike a simple comment, a hyperlink allows you to follow a link to an entirely different blog that may also be of interest to you, since it has posted about something you have already decided was interesting enough to read (if you're looking at the comments and trackbacks).Trackbacks are also powerful tools for sites driven by metadata, like Technorati--which tracks not only themes/topics and the content of posts you write about, but also who links to you--and who you link to.
strangnetOct 2, 2005
It's not dead. Just fix some htaccess-rules and an up-to-date spamfilter and you won't see any more trackback spam.
snyyOct 2, 2005
trackback realy doesnt do much for me Ive never used or or evean wonder why its all over everything
nitrousflareOct 2, 2005
what the hell is trackback?
Closed AccountOct 3, 2005
i was just searching on this at google. awesome.
philbertOct 3, 2005
Nice Digg. I always wondered about that, I never saw the purpose in a blog, thinking "who would want to read about my boring day?", but I'm starting to see how it might be useful.
ph3rnyOct 3, 2005
this still doesn't tell me what trackback is...im still confused as heck...
shadowrelicOct 3, 2005
trackback is retarded
Closed AccountOct 3, 2005
so far: trackback + tags = visitors.
isolationismOct 28, 2006
Trackbacks do indeed create visitors; it's like a comment that you leave from your own blog instead of on the person's whose story you read; you leave an excerpt on the track-backed site and the user can follow a link to read the whole post on your blog.The thing that interests me about trackbacks is that they draw on the primary point of HTML: hyperlinking terms to relevant documents. Unlike a simple comment, a hyperlink allows you to follow a link to an entirely different blog that may also be of interest to you, since it has posted about something you have already decided was interesting enough to read (if you're looking at the comments and trackbacks).Trackbacks are also powerful tools for sites driven by metadata, like Technorati--which tracks not only themes/topics and the content of posts you write about, but also who links to you--and who you link to.