Trackbacking

[Boogie]

Blind wanted me to write up a little bit about trackbacking so I'm glad to take the time to do that here.

Some blogs have 'trackbacking' turned on. Many do not. Mine does, so lets take a look at a recent entry of mine:

Take a look at this entry and you'll see a small 'meta data' box that includes a lot of information, including the trackback url, in this case its:

http://www.boogie-blog.com/cant-get-...htm/trackback/

So, lets imagine that you like my entry on ashley-brookes and want to mention it in your blog. In exchange for you supplying a link to my entry about her, you can also 'trackback' my site and have your link appear naturally as part of my comments section.

In your blogging script there should be a small part of your 'post' form that includes a

"Send trackbacks to this url". you should simply plug in the url into that form and it should take care of everything else for you.

you'll get a free link in my comments section, I'll gain relevenance for linking to another blog of the same topic and genre, and all is right with the world.

Any questions?