Comments on: Blog Jargon: What’s a Trackback? Permalink? Post slug? Ping?

By: Nervous but Successful Afternoon at BlogIN | The Marketing Technology Blog

Nervous but Successful Afternoon at BlogIN | The Marketing Technology Blog — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:07:41 +0000

[...] (where you see actual keywords and phrases in the URL for each post rather than a ?p=1234). Permalinks with Post Slugs can make quite a difference in the Search Engine ranking of your [...]

By: Flash gamer

Flash gamer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:26:36 +0000

Thanks for this post explaining some of the terms. Helped me out immensely! Now I know.

By: Kyle Lacy

Kyle Lacy — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:39:02 +0000

Thanks for this post Doug! You are a great help!

By: 2007 Statistics: The Marketing Technology Blog | The Marketing Technology Blog

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:19:59 +0000

[...] Blog Jargon: 3,169 Pageviews [...]

By: » Exploiting webmaster vanity in search engine marketing

» Exploiting webmaster vanity in search engine marketing — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:30:43 +0000

[...] where the blog or publishing software is used to inform other blogs about new posts and vice versa. Trackback is the most popular of these methods (although it has become prey to [...]

By: Reader Acquisition Strategies for New Bloggers | The Marketing Technology Blog

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:19:00 +0000

[...] If I only knew then what I know now, the next few posts may have been a little bit different. I don’t regret the path I took, but I definitely could have acquired new readers much faster. I wasn’t concentrating on readers, I was just trying to get used to writing each day or so and getting a feel for it. A better route I could have taken would have been to write some great responses to other blog posts. I had read many a blog before I started but had not joined in the conversation. Had I done that, more bloggers with reputation would have read my blog and may have promoted my writing. Tip #1 Along with some fresh posts, write about some other posts out in the blogosphere to jumpstart your readership. Be sure to utilize trackbacks. [...]

By: Educated

Educated — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:18:05 +0000

Trackbacks Explained: Networking With Your Blog…

Trackbacks are one of those blogging features that some beginners just don’t get (I was there – trackbacks have only made sense to me recently). The truth is that they are very simple to understand.

Think of trackbacks as comments that are poste…

By: Using NUS Module Blogs : January Statistics

Using NUS Module Blogs : January Statistics — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:28:58 +0000

[...] Trackback activity is minimal, meaning that NUS Module Blogs, despite being accessible to the public are still not engaging a wider audience. This could be due to the nature of the module blogs (i.e. blog posts are highly course specific). [...]

By: Now, get this website done ! » Blog Archive » Set up a blog using WordPress

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:09:47 +0000

[...] in the sidebar when you are editing posts. Now if you are not familiar with all of this, here is a very good explanation of some important bloging concepts. Also, here is more information to startup with WordPress [...]

By: engtech

engtech — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:12:47 +0000

It’s something that’s borked for specific WP.com users.

I’ve done testing and it looks like my trackbacks ARE working if I send them manually, it’s the automatic pingbacks that are broken for me.