Well, I have never claimed to be a genius (actually I claim it all the time) but today I must admit to having been given a lesson about something I should now very well. 🙁 Trackbacks!
As someone who spends a fair amount of time desiging web pages, creating web applications etc, you would think I had remained at least passably up to speed with the assorted technologies.
Obviously not.
Not only do I humiliate myself on the AJAX front (when I have to finally admit to being in the dark about what it can be used for other than maps), I realised today that the “trackback” bit of a blog meant nothing to me. I have seen it millions of times yet had no idea how to utilise it. The shame will haunt me forever.
Anyway, I was fortunate enough to find a useful website with advice on what I was missing. Sadly I am still not sure of the best way to trackback to them, so they know they are being talked about but I suspect one of these links will do the trick: http://www.walsallschools.org/2006/02/10#a366 or http://www.walsallschools.org/newsItems/trackback/ping$366 or http://www.walsallschools.org/2006/02/10/HowTo-Trackback
If anyone knows the answer – please tell me….
I haven’t tested the bottom one thoroughly enough yet, but certainly the top two work. How else would I know you just TB’d me :-)))
The easiest one to use is the one under the # in the greyed out text under each posting.
I tried TB’ing back to you. Doesn’t seemed to have worked? Maybe you’ve got it in an approval bin somewhere. What with the amount of TB spam that I clean up everyday…
http://www.blogfootball.com/service/2006/01/13/Back-tracking-on-the-trackback-spam
Thanks for the info and your trackbacks are working. At the moment there isnt anything in place to filter out the TB Spam (dont get enough to warrant it) but it seems the software itself is inserting a significant delay before it shows the trackback.
Oddly, the TB on your pages didnt show up for a while.
There is a chance TW is still doing something wrong but as I dont know any better I cant advise/correct! 🙂
Once again – thanks for the comment.
I am still baffled by the trackback thing but that’s just one of the 10^6 things that don’t work as expected on my PC. I suspect it’s the excessive but still ineffective protection against malware that I have.
Nice that soemone has cracked it.
still learning 🙂