What is Digg?17 Comments
- isolationism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Trackbacks 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. - snyy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0trackback realy doesnt do much for me Ive never used or or evean wonder why its all over everything
- ninxmz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was just wondering about this the other day. Thanks for the link.
- furiouszebra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"TrackBack is already dead, it's used more often for spam than legit uses and people are taking it off their websites."
Are you the same Shii that got permabanned from SA? - strangnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's not dead. Just fix some htaccess-rules and an up-to-date spamfilter and you won't see any more trackback spam.
- mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Still need to be more simpler (ie. A person like a post > person linked the post's URL > Trackback).
- PaulMWatson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Trackback is how all commenting should work.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i was just searching on this at google. awesome.
- TheDeadMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How can this digg be submitted 16 days ago, and be in this weeks top stories??? that makes no sense
- ketsugi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0TrackBack is a damn useful thing but I didn't find this page very useful either.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so far: trackback + tags = visitors.
- ph3rny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this still doesn't tell me what trackback is...
im still confused as heck... - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice 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.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0TrackBack is already dead, it's used more often for spam than legit uses and people are taking it off their websites.
- NitrousFlare, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0what the hell is trackback?
- ShadowRelic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0trackback is retarded
- Dezrik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0TrackBack is already dead, it's used more often for spam than legit uses and people are taking it off their websites.
It's not dead. Just fix some htaccess-rules and an up-to-date spamfilter and you won't see any more trackback spam.
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