a link from one blogger's post to another on a different blog

a link on someone else's blog that shows that you referenced them

a link that appears in a blog's Comments section to tell you that somebody has not only read your entry, but has then gone on to create his or her own Blog entry talking about you and your entry

a link that blogger A generates on weblog B, which lets everyone reading weblog B follow the link back to weblog A

a link to an article from another blog

a link to another web site, generally a personal weblog

a link to other sites that refer to the entry across the Web Calendar This allows you to find all entries posted on any date

a list of blogs that reference or use in its entirety a post from this site (or whatever blog you are at)

a mechanism used in a blog to show, around an entry, a list of other blogs that refer to it

a mechanism used in a blog which indicates that a particular word or phrase is being written about on other blogs as well - ie

an auto-citation feature that allows solitary webloggers to feel as if they are part of a community

an auto-citation feature that generates an empty page, usually containing no more than a link

an embedded communication mechanism by which two blog sites can interact with each other

an explicit statement by the follow-up blogger, the remote commenter, that she or he thinks the follow-up is likely of interest to the reader of the original post

a note from one blog to your blog, triggered by a link to your blog

a notification sent from one blog to another

a notification to another blog that you have posted a topic relating to or responding to one that they have

a ping that is sent to a website letting them know that you've referenced their entry in an entry of your own

a reference on one website (usually a blog) to another website (ditto)

a sample of a post that appears at another blog on the same thread

a small message sent from Site A to Site B to notify Site B that Site A wants to reference a post on Site B and provide a way for Site B to link back to Site A's reference

a unique URL associated with a permalink which sends a message to a post you want to refer to say you have linked to it

a URL that one pings to let the origional location know that it has been referenced

a way for bloggers to communicate between their weblogs

a way of posting a comment from your blog to another's

a way to let me know you posted about Backpack Lounging in Catalina on your website

a way to let me know you posted about I I'll Be Was On CNN Again on your website

A trackback is used to help follow and track conversations going on between different blogs on the subject and allows a blogger to show that they have commented on an orginal post in their own blog. If I respond to or expand on a post on somebody's blog, then when I post it, I include a trackback which automatically sends notification to the original author and creates a link to my post in their comemnts section. So for example, to create a trackback to this page, you would make sure that you were on the individual page (ie. just click on the post title) and then you would find the trackback address in the "Archived Entry" box in the right hand sidebar. Adding this into the trackback box in your blog software when you write your post woud create the link.

A system by which a ping is sent to another trackback-capable website (most likely another blog) to notify the site that a link to them has been made (usually within an article being posted). The objective is to notify the subject of an article that they have been mentioned in another article elsewhere.

a technology that allows a blogger to remotely publish their comments to another blog entry on another web site. How it works: Blogger A finds Blogger B's blog entry interesting. Blogger A makes an entry into his/her own blog about Blogger B's entry. While making the comment, Blogger A pastes Blogger B's trackback url into the entry. Bogger A's comments now appear on Blogger B's blog.

A link back to another blog, and sends a ping letting that blog know it has been linked to.

Trackbacks are a software-enabled linking technique to enable commenting interaction between different websites. In other words, Jane can post on her own site about Roland's post on the new cell phone coming out, and her post will appear directly on Roland's site in abbreviated form -- that is, if both sites have trackbacks enabled. See Moveable Type's simple explanation.

When a post links to a post on another blog that supports Trackback it can ping the other blog to notify it that it has been referred to.

a mechanism used in a blog that shows a list of entries in other blogs that refer to a post on the first blog. [ Wikipedia

TrackBack is a feature offered by some blogging sites, that lets you know when other sites have linked to your blog and it allows other sites to know that you have linked to them. It is displayed after each blog entry. Clicking on the TrackBack link will show the list of other sites or weblogs that are referencing the blog entry. BACK to Blawg Pathfinder.

A trackback is a comment recorded in a blog indicating that another blog has referenced the current entry.

added by CarThik Trackback notifies another blog author that you wrote something related to his article, even if you don't have an explicit link to his article. Pingback requires that Wordpress authors include the special trackback URI from the other article. Many blogging systems will automatically insert a trackback comment into the other author's blog, which is not true of pingback. See also Ping Back.

A link between entries on different blogs.

A system of letting a blog owner know that you have quoted, referenced, or used their post for something in your post. This is called "trackbacking" or "pinging" their post. This is polite to the original source of your post; it expedites discussion; and it drives traffic to your blog.

A system devised by the people behind Movable Type to make it easier to track conversations between weblogs. So: I write something on my weblog. You want to respond on your weblog, so you write your piece, post it, and send a Trackback "ping" to my site to, in effect, say "hey, I've commented on your piece". At that point, my weblog automatically links to your comments. And so on.