Pings, Pingbacks and Trackbacks?
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When looking in my “Track Comments” section, I sometimes see where it will say “So-and-so-article – So-and-So blog” – Pinged 2 days ago (or how many every days it actually has been.) What does this mean? Also, somewhere in the stats I saw “pingbacks and trackbacks” statistics? What are those?
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Hi. If you search for those words in the support documents, you’ll find your answers really quick (and better worded than any explanation I could come up with)
http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=pings
http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=pingbacks
http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=trackbacks -
I just got my first ping/trackback on a post and am very flattered. Is there an etiquette when receiving one of these?
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