Trackback Spam?

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  moveamountain · Member · May 7, 2012 at 11:50 pm

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  I don’t really understand what trackbacks are… but I thought they are a good thing. So why is the following captured as spam in my comments for Long-Distance Dad?

  Submitted on 2012/05/04 at 10:28 am

  … [Trackback]…

  […] Read More: long-distance-dad.com/2012/05/03/2000-rand/ […]…

  What does this mean? If I make it NOT spam… will it allow the trackback? And who’s tracking whom? Again…. I don’t get what trackbacks are.
  Blog url: http://longdistancedaddotcom.wordpress.com/

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  jackiedana · Member · May 8, 2012 at 3:17 am

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  Here are a couple links that describe trackbacks, one from WordPress.com, and another at the WordPress.org Codex:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trackbacks/

  http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks

  You can indeed get trackback spam (there are some interesting articles about it if you do a quick Google search), and it sounds like Akismet is catching them for you. Unless you think the trackback in question has been flagged erroneously, I wouldn’t really worry about it.