Linkbacks
Posted on February 11, 2009 by Paul · Posted in Affiliate Tools, Blogging
What are linkbacks and how do they work. This is something we have just come across having added our blog to the Technorati website. Since we have done this we have some requests for pingbacks. Being new to this we were unsure what pingbacks were so having researched it we thought we’d explain what they are for anyone else new to blogging. A pingback is a form of linkback. Linkbacks come in three forms, refback, trackback and pingback. So what is the difference:-
- Refback – Visitor to linking site clicks on the link, and his browser takes him to the linked site. A Refback uses the HTTP referer header to discover incoming links. Whenever a browser traverses an incoming link from Site A (originator) to Site B (receptor) the browser will send a Referer header indicating the URL from where the user came.
- Trackback – A trackback is a way of letting a website know that you are referencing them or linking them in your posts. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking, and so referring, to their articles.
- Pingback – This is similar to a trackback. The pingback system is a way for a blog to be automatically notified when other blogs link to it.
So we received pingbacks from some sites because they linked to our Technorati link so we then received a pingback telling us ablog had linked to our post on Technorati.
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Always wondered what a ping back was, cheers!