For Bloggers: How to use "Trackbacks"

Tuesday, January 3. 2006

I've just learned by myself how to use these "trackbacks", which literally are links to other weblogs which helps to find comments to a bog entry made in an other weblog. So e.g. Michael Marleau writes something about an old steamboat from 1880 and I'd like to add my five-cents to that. I can do this either by posting a comment on Michael's blog directly, or I post something in my own blog and put a trackback link in the appropriate box at the bottom of the "new entry" form. As soon as i do this, everyone reading Michael's posting will see that there is a trackback and can click on the link to see my posting related to Michael's blog.

So, where to get this "trackback link"? When you read the original posting, you'll find a link called "Trackbacks" below th posting. Click on this link and you'll find a link called "Trackback specific URI for this entry". Right-click on it and choose "Copy Shortcut". Now you can paste this to the "Additional Links to Trackback" box on your "new entry" form - done.

I'm doing this for demonstration in this posting, too, using the trackback link to Michael's posting about the quarantine in St. Louis.

Posted by Franz Neumeier in Dot-Org Captain's at 04:55 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Is there a way to change the anchor text when doing a trackback link? For example, I enter the trackback url into my trackback box at writingup.com ( a blog I have ) but then the anchor text on the trackback link says writingup instead of the title of my last entry. Thanks

#1 Beating Adwords on 2006-10-18 13:18 (Reply)

There is no way to do this as a trackback is just an URL submitted to the Weblog the trackback will appear in. So you do not have any influence on how that weblog is handling this trackback at all. Even worse for the purpose I suppose you're thinking of: Trackback links many times are marked "nofollow" to the search engines, so you won't be able to use trackbacks for link popularity at all (for good reasons ...).

My personal opinion, being rather literate concerning Google is: The idea of mentioned in the article linked to may work for a while, but Google is not stupid and they are changing their algorithms all the time to prevent from being tricked on. There are new ideas comming up every few days. But in the same spee Google is closing all these new doors pretty rapidly. So if you really want to make money this way, you do not need this one famous idea, but a new idea every few weeks, at least ...

#1.1 Franz Neumeier on 2006-10-18 14:13 (Reply)

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