If you own a blog, you’ll probably want other bloggers to spread and link back to your post. This is where trackbacks and pingbacks come into play. If you want to find out more about trackbacks and pingbacks (and the difference), check out introduction to blogging at WordPress Codex as I’m not planning to explain it here.
To make sure that your trackback works (i.e other bloggers can successfully trackback to your posts), you can either ask a blogger friend to write a post and link back to your post using the post’s trackback URL.
Or even better, use a free service such as “Test Track”.
In “Test Track” blog, you can login as a blog writer/author and start writing test post that includes a trackback URL to your post.
After creating a simple post with a trackback URL to your post, hit the Publish button. The Test Track homepage should now display your recently published post:
If the trackback works correctly, you should be getting a notification from your blog about a new Trackback entry to your post. If you don’t, then something is wrong. I remember having a problem in the past because I changed my Permalink from http://www.cravingtech.com/a-post-title/ to www.cravingtech.com/a-post-title.html (permalink with html at the end of the post title). Somehow trackback stopped working. Luckily, it seems that the latest WordPress (2.7 or 2.7.1) already fixed this problem as I have just validated it. Thanks to Van from bastillwork.net who reminded me about putting trackback URLs back on my posts.
You can now find the trackback URL at the bottom of every post on my blog:
To test your own posts’ trackbacks, use Test Track site.
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I am new to WordPress. Thanks for posting. This blog helps me set up the trackbacks and pingbacks.
Yes…I am new too. I didn’t know so far how to set up this.
Thank you
Good to know this. Thanks for sharing.
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Trackbacks/pingbacks enables us to generate more traffic to our sites. It enables other bloggers to spread the blog page that has a trackback or a pingback. Glad that you have post this. It greatly helps. thanks.
My theme does not seem to have a trackback/pingback url displayed on the page. How do i enable that (or what code would I use)?
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I’ve gotten the trackback url to display but it doesnt seem to be working.
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Well you usually need to put /trackback/ at the end of the post’s URL. Yours is quite unique though..it ends with archive/postID? Is that a WordPress blog? Does it have a trackback/pingback feature?
Trackbacks work for my blog.
But, I have a strange problem. DO you have that?
If i have a publish a post with (say) 3 previous posts links. Upon publishing i see only one trackback. I need to save 2 moretimes to get the other 2 trackbacks?
Does any body has this problem? If yes how do i resolve it?
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Hm, I’m not sure. Honestly speaking, I usually just link back to people’s post without bothering to put trackbacks on the links
Not a expert blogger so don’t have such expertise how to ping or trackback very new in blogging world, thank you useful information, going to start on your path now.
I get so tired of looking at my web statistics in Awstats and then going over to Google Analytics to see the actual traffic to my blog. Why is there such a big difference? One of the reasons is trackback spam, and it affects a lot of WordPress sites.