When it comes to explain Trackbacks, it’s an exercise that makes a great judge of the skill of any blogging expert, because they are hard to explicate. So here I go, and feel free to judge me Basically, when you write a post about something on your blog, and one of your readers likes it, he would leave a comment telling his opinion.. Well, how about leaving a comment about your blog post in my blog ? Here where Trackbacks come in! Read More > Trackbacks - Hard To Explain But Here I Go!
Well of course like anything fun or cool online, the evil bastard sapmmers got busy funneling their sewage into automated Trackbacks pingbots that left everyone' s blogs with dainty messages about mortgages, online poker and Viagra. Most comment spam blockers are now configured to also scan Trackbacks to help stem the tide of spammy Trackbacks.
I see.. i always thought trackbacks were just like archive something.. it makes more sense to me now..
Which is why I disable trackbacks. If someone wants to blog about my site, awesome! But do so becasuse its providing useful content to your blog readers and not just expecting a trackback link in return.
Thanks for the explanation! I thought I had a good idea as to what trackbacks were, and you reaffirmed my thoughts!
Trackbacks are usually often not included in the calculation of your blog's Google PageRank. I presume this applies to the other search engines as well.