When making a thread or post you can add "TrackBacks". What are Trackbacks?

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Trackback A Trackback is simply an acknowledgment. This acknowledgment is sent via a network signal (ping) from Site A (originator) to Site B (receptor). The receptor often publishes a link back to the originator indicating its worthiness.
Trackback requires both, Site A and Site B to be Trackback enabled in order to establish this communication. Trackback does not require for Site A to phisically link to Site B.
Trackback our Forums from another Site

1. Find the thread Trackback URL - In our forums, the Trackback URL is also the "LinkBack URL", located under the LinkBack dropdown menu within each thread.
2. Copy and paste this URL into your publishing platform
3. Submit your entry.

Note: If the forum administrator requires moderation for Incoming Trackbacks, a link-back to the site originating the Trackback will be published only after the Trackback has been manually approved by a moderator.
Once a Trackback has been published, an automated notification email will be sent to the thread contributors.

Trackback other Sites from our Forums

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I hate to sound stupid but can you give an example of how I would use it?

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You sound stupid !! :p


I'll just sit here and pretend to have a clue and wait for Brandon to enlighten us both!!

You don't even know how they work?

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do you know about ping on wordpress blogs ?

it's along the same lines,, say I wanted to add a trackback to your site, I would enter the url where you seen and then when the post is made, a ping will be sent to the url I added.

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Nope.

And I still don't.

So have you actually used this for this forum?

I'm interested to hear about their uses to, have read descriptions about them but still not 100% clear on there purpose?

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It's just like an acknowledgement to a source site.

Say site A has a nice article and site B wants to repost it.. When site B makes the post, they would add site A's trackback, this would give a link back, then also when site A approves the linkbacks, it would then create a link back to site B.

It's a bit confusing when I try to explain it, but it's just a way to help link popularity.

-Brandon

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Right that makes things a bit easier to understand I have had a few linkbacks come up on my forum but it just displays my forum address and not the other site address?

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