So, how does a trackback work?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by walrus

By definition, that would create a ping-back which should still post a recipricol link. It just would only add the post title and URI into comments and not an excerpt from the post. To do what you want the person you are going to be linking to would need to turn off the "accept pings" for the post you were going to link to.

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?

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?