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 /VIEW-IMAGE/$File/view-image.png "Image information"){kind=small} Trackback is a simple mechanism that allows a 'back link' to be created from a page on another site to a page on your own website. Quite simply, if I create a link to another site then if trackback is enabled a message is automatically (or semi-automatically) sent to that other site (it is pinged) to tell it that I have created the link. In turn, the pinged site automatically creates a link back to my site. In short, it allows you to effectively create a bi-directional link between two sites. Cool! Yes you might not "get it" ummediately but read on and take a look at the implementation and at some point the "penny should drop". This feature was originally developed for weblogs so that weblog postings that linked to other weblogs could automatically generate a return links and thus increase the distributed nature of weblogs and their utility as discussion forums. Not only can you ping my site using the conventional TrackBack protocol, but if your site does not support TrackBack I have provided a link at the bottom of most of my wesbite pages that allows you to create a TrackBack link from my site to yours by filling in a simple form. Easy! Not only can you see TrackBack links from my site to individual pages on other sites - they are listed at the end of each page of my site but this page lists ALL the TrackBack links for my whole site.
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