Check out this link to News.com and you’ll see that they’re accepting trackbacks and pingbacks from blogs now. How friggin’ cool is that? That particular page is for trackbacks to the news item I discussed in my previous entry.
This is still in the testing phase it appears as I didn’t see any way to access that page from the article itself and the trackback code doesn’t auto-discover yet. I only found out about it from an entry at Photo Matt’s blog where he discusses it and reveals how to craft a URL to get to the trackback page for an item. He points out that most of the pings News.com has received so far are from Pingback enabled blogs as the auto-discovery code for that seems to be working OK. I had to open up the source view and hunt for the Trackback URL about midway through the code in order to ping it from SEB. The Pingback code was right at the top of the page.
Speaking of which, can someone please explain to me what differences (if any) there are between trackback and pingback? I’ve read the technical documentation on both and I’m no clearer on what one offers over the other.
Pingback is when an article requests links. Trackback is when a user sends links to an article.
I think?
From the pMachine forums
Coolness. Now I wonder if Rick and the gang plan on implementing Pingback in EE.
Les! Off topic, but still.
Heads up: check out this article.
I plan on writing a Pingback Vs. Trackback (non-tech speak) article. Stay tuned.
EE seems like it’s a powerful publishing solution. It might have pingbacks already and just need them turned on in the settings or config’d for them. I’d suggest email EE and see if you already have pingback support.
Jason, I’m officially a member of the EE Support Team. I’d probably know if EE has pingback features.
heh…point taken.
Here’s one the more straightforward explanations I’ve seen on pingback and trackback:
BTW: Here’s an interesting comparison chart showing the features of the mainstream blogs and which are utilizing pingback and trackback,
Don’t mean to intrude, but CNET News.com has now made its TrackBack/Pingback support public.
http://news.com.com/TrackBack+and+Pingback+supported+by+CNET+News.com/2030-9368_3-5462850.html
Let us know if we can improve it. Feedback welcome via TrackBack to the page above or an email via the form at the URL above.
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LOL,
Say, I really like that car you’re driving.
You don’t mind if I paste a few advertisements to it, do ya?
(busts out a gluestick and a Domino’s flyer)
Damn, the spammers are busy today. That last one was particularly annoying as they’re using various free hosting services so I was loathe to ban the root URL outright. If I get any more like that, though, I’ll do just that.