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TRACKBACK PINGER

For those of you without the ability to send TrackBack pings because of limitations of your blogging software, I’ve put a link to Kevin Aylward’s standalone pinger in the BLOGGING RESOURCES section of my left sidebar. You can also install his bookmarklet.

TrackBack is useful not only in letting bloggers know who has linked to them but in sending readers to the sites of said linkers. It comes with the additional benefit of gaining you an Ecosystem link on sites like Kevin‘s, Steven‘s, Laurence‘s, and mine that include inline TrackBack links.

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James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

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  1. Technobabble
    Works as advertised, the clever boffins…

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  2. Wizbang says:

    Geek Toys
    From Wizbang Tech: I’ve decided to make the front end of the Stand Alone Trackback Pinger available to whoever wants it in HTML form so you can add it to your site if you so desire. Here’s a 1K zip…

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TRACKBACK PINGER

Kevin Aylward has created a standalone TrackBack pinger that will allow non-MT sites to participate in this feature. Basically, TrackBack is a buggy feature that, when it works, tracks follow-up comments to a post on another blog. So, if it works properly, both WizBang and Amish Tech Support will get a TrackBack ping that will show them and any reader of their site that I have mentioned their posts on OTB to “continue the discussion.”

In related news, Laurence has also coded his template to actually show the last 10 TrackBacks right on the page, to provide added incentive to link him using this feature.

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About James Joyner
James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

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  1. That’s another way of looking at it. I guess I appear shameless now. Hrm…

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  2. Wizbang says:

    Stand Alone Trackback Pinger Announcement
    In the course of writing my own pinger I realized that the sender of the ping could be anyone, they don’t need trackback capability on their blog to send pings. So anyway I will updated this post tomorrow with the URL to my community trackback pinger. …

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  3. Wizbang says:

    Stand Alone Trackback Pinger Announcement
    Tesing the live trackback pinger…

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  4. Wizbang says:

    Test Ping
    Test Ping… Sorry…

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  5. Wizbang says:

    Test Ping
    Sorry more testing of a new version…

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  6. Wizbang says:

    Weekend Wrapup
    Items you may have missed that were posted this weekend, in no particular order Misha has a nice post on Father’s Day – introspective posts devoid of invective.Steven Den Beste has a post on the fallout of the French stance…

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