So, how does a trackback work?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Bill

Doesn't that imply that the best possible setting would be to turn off accepting pings in general?

What advantage would there be in accepting pings if all it does is create a reciprocal link?

In mainstream, trackbacks and pings are probably the most common means of link exchange so it would be considered by them to be unethical.

If a group of adult bloggers decide they want to do some one way post linking, thats cool if everyone is in agreement but you would still risk pissing someone off who was not in the group but decided for some unknown reason to link to one of your posts.

Since thats a pretty remote possibility, probably not worth worrying about.

Originally Posted by Bill

I've been doing trials on a few of my splogs, and so far I haven't been able to recreate either a trackback or a pingback, wether or not I put /trackback/ after the permalink, while putting the permalink into the blog body text. Maybe I haven't waited long enough for the trackback to show up.

The critical question is, how does one create a oneway link from one blog post to another?

Is using dofollow, and making comments, with akismet turned on, the best way to accomplish this on most blogs?

Give your spam filter a check as almost all trackbacks tend to get tossed in with the spam.

If your dealing with splogs, I don't see any problem with disabling either ping-backs or trackbacks.