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TrackBack is a low-level protocol used by millions of blogs across the Internet that is used to inform one blog that another blog is linking to it. In this way blogs can not only track conversations locally through comments, but also remotely via "TrackBacks."

TrackBack Articles

TrackBack Growing Up

It’s been a great week for TrackBack: First, PRWeb, one of the most popular sources for news releases on the web, has just announced that they’ve added support for TrackBack to all the press releases on the site. This shows...

Submitting TrackBack as an Internet Standard

In 2002, Ben and Mena Trott had an idea for how blogging systems could communicate with one another more effectively about the plethora of content being created. They dubbed the idea "TrackBack" and they implemented it in Movable Type. What...

TrackBack Resources

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