A TrackBack is an automated notification that lets one blog let another blog know it’s being linked to, thus facilitating “conversations” between blogs. Say, for example, that a food blog publishes a post with a link to a wine blog. The wine blog is alerted to this and may automatically publish a comment with an excerpt and a link back to the food blog’s post. This lets the authors and readers of the wine blog know that the food blog is discussing the wine blog’s content.
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