Comments on: How a Trackback after a Comment Can Start a Relationship

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By: Digit-8

Digit-8 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:34:38 +0000

Interesting post. im new here so i don’t understand how this system work.

By: Stanley Tang - Internet Marketing

Stanley Tang - Internet Marketing — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:34:39 +0000

I totally agree. Trackbacks are a great way to not only generate traffic, but build relationships, which leads to joint ventres.

Stanley

By: angie

angie — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:51:59 +0000

Trackbacks are excellent way to make a relationship, I’ve seen it myself.

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By: Barbra Sundquist

Barbra Sundquist — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:26:14 +0000

Mani, look at comment #21 above :)

By: Mani

Mani — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:21:43 +0000

Can someone also explain well how to track back too? I think there are many who really don’t know how that is done.(including me :D)

By: Doris

Doris — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:59:04 +0000

Another great article, Liz… trackbacks are powerful. I believe that brought you over to my site when SOB was mentioned. Can’t agree more that this is a fun way to build a relationship on the Web.

By: J. Pisano

J. Pisano — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:48:09 +0000

Shane,

You know if that “cliff hanger” comment becomes “big” and becomes the next Huge SEO tip for people leaving comments, I want you and I to get joint “coining” rights to it! :) :D

Joe Pisano

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:24:39 +0000

If it wasn’t for the trackbacks from sploggers, my sites would still be inactive and ‘broken’ in the technorati indexes.

I just don’t believe one has to have the last word all of the time and answer every comment or trackback received.. (of course Liz will probably disagree with that statement :D). Soimetimes it’s okay to just comment, without a conversation. And, it’s nice to get that comment and trackback too .. I’m no different from anybody else. It boosts our ego that someone is not only reading your stuff, but perhaps it affected them in a way to effect a response – and that’s good.

know that the ones interested in reading and getting comments and trackbacks .. like me .. also appreciate it and I do try to comment when I can relate to the words and feel that I can either contribute to the conversation or just have an opinion. But – you don’t have to thank me for the comment and response to it – just to acknowledge me that I commented…. I know you’re listening .. Even DARREN – who probably eventually reads every single non-spam email he receives! (and clears my messages that sometimes gets moderated :D)

By: Liz Strauss

Liz Strauss — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:36:17 +0000

Hi Joe!
Thanks for taking the time to let us know about the exact nature of where our trackbacks could be ending up. I know I find plenty in my Akisment . . . I also find lots of splogger trackbacks there. So I don’t want folks to get too excited by what they find. :)

Shane, you’ve got me smiling tonight. Thank you for that. :)

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:59:22 +0000

The “Cliffhanger” trackback. What a great concept.

By: J. Pisano

J. Pisano — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:11:40 +0000

Liz and all,

I was just re-checking some trackbacks that I should have received that “mysteriously” were sucked up into oblivion and found an interesting interaction happing with Askimet and Wordpress 2.1+ (more after the next few blurbs about this mystery)….

Many times Askimet will “intercept” your trackback and put it in the SPAM “bucket”. Initially, I thought the culprit might be the “Bad Behavior” plugin- but after numerous checks it indeed was Askimet.

So… before you “dump all” of your Askimet Spam, you might want to sift through your SPAM and see if there are any REAL trackbacks in there. The good news is that if you are running a plugin like Bad Behavior you shouldn’t have “much spam” to go through…. If your just running Askimet or another Spam Filter you may literally have hundreds per week.

“The Mystery” continued…. So as I was trying to troubleshoot all of this, I turned off Askimet and found that my trackbacks were still not getting through… They just were being “sucked up to nowhere”. Then I turned the Askimet Plugin back “on” and “poof” there the missing trackbacks were… back in the Askimet SPAM “bucket”. I’m going to bug the Askimet people about this and see if it’s supposed to work like that. Previously, when you turned off Askiment it was just off… It now appears to be still on, even after the plugin is turned off but you can’t access the Askimet options.

Maybe it’s because Askikme is “built in now” and I have the remnants of the old plugin still there… Don’t Know. Has this happened to anyone else?

Joe Pisano ~MUSicTECHnology.net

http://www.mustech.net

By: Liz Strauss

Liz Strauss — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:07:25 +0000

Hi Joseph!
As you can see from this line of comments, I still think your article is one of the best there is on the topic of trackbacks. Great to see you again!

Hi Barbra!
Thanks for taking the time to write out the detail on how to leave a trackback. Your article on trackbacks is another staple in the wisdom on the subject. Kudos to you too!

Hey Benjamin!
I can see exactly why you turned your trackbacks off . . . and even more why you turned them back on again. I’m so smiling. One more relationship bloggers is always a good thing to hear about! :)

Hello MJ,
Trackbacks are tricky in that every system seems to have a different of doing them. I know when I first learned about them I probably missed out on half the chance to use them, because I ddin’t know ho to tell a Typepad blog from one from WordPress or another system.
I’m sorry you won’t let us trackback to you . . . . that means that some of our potential conversation would always be in private. :)

By: Seo Practices for Beginners

Seo Practices for Beginners — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:02:37 +0000

I agree, Trackbacks are a great to begin a relationship, I have seen it myself. What I didn’t think of was about leaving an interesting question that would make visitors go to the blog to check for the answer, great tip, thanks.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:00:34 +0000

I’m not using glitzy blogging software (inertia is a wonderful thing) but I can leave trackbacks – I have an unpublicised rudimentary script at http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/trackbash which can be run from a Unix command prompt and it then does a question-and-answer session to generate a trackback (works with GNU bash and wget). One frustration is the growing number of blogs which hide their trackback URL in javascript, metadata or similar, but it works well enough most of the time. I really should polish, package and publicise it.

My own blog also has another script that lets people leave trackbacks but I don’t link it any more because of all the trackback spam out there. I prefer people to use the comment form.

By: Benjamin Solah

Benjamin Solah — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:27:19 +0000

Excellent post. I recently turned trackbacks off to counter spam, but have just turned it back on because you’ve reminded me of the undeniable benefits. Blogging just doesn’t seem the same without it.

By: Barbra Sundquist

Barbra Sundquist — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:18:42 +0000

Andika, I’ll try to explain the basics of how to make a trackback.

1) If you are reading someone’s blog and you like a particular post, click on the title of the article.

2) That will bring you to a page that is exclusively devoted to that article. Look in the address bar of that page and copy the link (that link is called a PERMALINK).

3) Now go to your own blog and paste that link into an post that you write. For example, you might write “I was just over at Sally’s blog reading her excellent post http://www.sallysblog.com/the-permalink-to-the-post-you-like/.

4) In most blogging software that’s all you have to do. When you publish your post it will automatically “ping” Sally’s blog and leave her a message saying that you did a trackback to her.

5) Watch your screen the first time you do it to see if there’s a message that says something to the effect of “pinging http://www.sallysblog.com/the-permalink-to-the-post-you-like/”

6) If you don’t see a message to this effect, then it means that your blogging software doesn’t do trackbacks automatically. In that case, you’ll have to an extra step: look on the page where you composed your post for a place that says “trackbacks”. In the blogging software that I use, that place is down in the lower right corner. Paste the PERMALINK (http://www.sallysblog.com/the-permalink-to-the-post-you-like/) in the trackback box and publish your post.

This is a really simplified version of how to make a trackback. There are, of course, finer points that you can learn by reading posts such as one by Joe Pisano that Liz mentioned above
http://www.mustech.net/2006/09/trackbacks-ping-bud-a-bing/

I hope this helps!

Barbra