Alright … so I have to admit it … i just kind of jumped into this blogging thing without really understanding all of it completely. So last night I figured out that if I clicked a little button, I could be notified when people post… this is a good thing since I check email religiously and don’t necessarily do a good job back tracking to old posts to see if I have new comments. So if you’ve commented in the past … and were hoping to hear from me and didn’t … I should be better about all of this now that I’ve clued into the blogging technology a bit more 😉
So here’s a question for all you blogging guru’s … what’s this about trackbacks? How do they work and should I be doing this? Would it some how make life easier for any of us involved in this blogging thing? I attempted to read the explanatin on Type Pad last night … maybe it was late … maybe it had a few too many technical words … maybe I just thought it’d be more fun to hear what you think …
Thanks for sharing! Have a great day.
I haven’t quite figured it out myself. I’ve enabled that feature on my blog but still do not comprehend it all.
So we’ll learn from each other on how this all works and I’ll be watching your blog for comments/suggestions on this.
I’d like to know too!? So funny that all of us bloggers have no idea what that is 🙂
Not sure if this is going to answer your question but you could track posts and comments in the “stats” feature in your typepad account. It will indicate when someone has left a comment on any post, old or recent, and give you the opportunity to read it right there in your stats.
Glad to know I’m not the only one that has no idea how to use track backs or what they are for! I’m going to keep watching this to see if anyone gives you (and thus me) a clue. Love your blog…I read it almost daily. 🙂
Angie Pederson wrote about Trackbacks on her blog: http://angiepedersen.typepad.com/blogofme/2005/07/how_to_trackbac.html
To give a simple explaination, let’s say you had selected to accept trackbacks on this post, and I was mentioning this post in my blog. I could click on a link at the end of your post, which would take me to a page with a trackback URL. I could then copy that URL, and when I’m posting in my blog, I paste that address in a box to send a trackback to. Then when I post it, you’ll receive an email telling you that I blogged about your post.
Does that make sense? Angie explains it real well in the link I posted above. 🙂
HTH!