TrackBacks offer a unique way for you to know that other bloggers are aware of your work and are responding to it on their own blogs. The TrackBack is also one of the trickiest concepts for new bloggers to understand. Heck, even veteran bloggers haven’t necessarily untangled what a TrackBack is, thanks to overly technical and indecipherable explanations on the Web. The subject is a bit loopy (literally, as you’ll see), but I mean to illuminate TrackBacks with crystal clarity to every reader.

TrackBack basics

The meaning of TrackBacks can be encapsulated a few ways, because they mean different things to different people. I am listing a few descriptions here in case they prove useful to remember as you read through this section. If they don’t juice your brain right now, it’s not a problem. If you read steadily through the next few pages, you will understand TrackBacks perfectly. So, TrackBacks are;

• A way for two sites, each running a blog, to communicate with each other
• A form of remote commenting, allowing multiple bloggers to have a conversation spread out among their sites
• A way for one blogger to insert a link to his or her blog on another blog