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🔔 A blog alert 🔔 To notify a blog
to trackback

to trackback

1 8.0
To send a message from your blog telling another blog you linked to its article
  • verb
  • Jargon
: trackbackear
  • When you write a new blog post, remember to trackback to the articles that inspired you.

Examples

  • You can also pingback or trackback from your own site.

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  • Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site.

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  • You can leave a response, or trackback your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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  • The conversation really starts working when university presidents, deans, chairs, professors, staff (including custodians and the folks who work in the admissions office), and students are all free to blog, podcast, comment, trackback, and link to each other as well as talk on podcasts.

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  • To cite your sources properly, you should trackback to the original posts you reference.

  • Many bloggers choose to trackback to promote their content and drive traffic to their sites.

Synonyms

to pingback
vsto trackback
  • Texting
1 7.1

To send an automatic message to a website when you link to its post

limits notification to another website rather than including servers

Surface Forms

trackback infinitive
trackbacked past
trackbacked past participle
trackbacking present participle
trackbacks third person singular

Etymology

To trackback means to send an automatic notice to another site. The word joins track ('follow') and back ('return'), so to trackback is to tell the original site 'I linked to you'.