Monday, November 07, 2005

More on the care and keeping of trackbacks

For clarification, this is the most simple way I can describe trackbacks:

If a citation in document A tells a reader that you're referencing something from document B, a trackback tells the reader of document B that document B is either cited or otherwise referred to in document A.

Also, if you are posting a link to the blog you trackbacked, post the static link, not the trackback link. I went through and fixed a couple (apparently I have full access to edit everyone's blog). If you want to do nifty HTML to hide your links, use this format: (you need to replace the brackets with <'s and >'s)

This (when you change the brackets to <'s and >'s)
{a href="http://masterworktheory.blogspot.com"}Evening Erudition{/a}

looks like this:
Evening Erudition

Looks much prettier, so give it a try. :)