Trackback

As TrackBack ( reference) a function is called, can exchange with the blogs about backlinks in the form of reactions and comments by an automatic alert service to one another.

Operation

The trackback function was initially developed by the company Six Apart for the blogging software Movable Type. It allows bloggers to determine whether reference is made to their own entry in another blog. These data are exchanged between the participating blogs using a fixed protocol, establish the relationship between the entries in question.

It has become common that Trackbacks are sent only if a link is included to the original article in referring to it article. A minority of bloggers exchanged even mutually Trackbacks from when merely a conceptual association is to strengthen the links in the blogosphere.

Depending on the blog software used, it may be necessary when creating a blog entry 's trackback URL of the blog / entry, which is incorporated by reference to type manually. Advanced software do it yourself or provide automatic trackback recognition ( Trackback Autodiscovery ).

In the scientific literature, one could Trackback imagine something like this as a source of information that is automatically notified of citations in other sources, or in the secondary literature.

Received Trackback news ( short Trackbacks ) are usually displayed at the end of each blog entry or together with the relevant comments. They contain the name of the linked blogs, the corresponding URL and a summary of the entry was taken from the reference to the current blog entry.

Besides the Trackback specification of Movable Type that exists Pingback something different structure, which pursues the same objective. There, however, reviewed, before the Web server of the linked source if the specified Trackback sender really exists.