Think of this as the Blog-tionary. Each week, I’ll give you a new term so you can broaden your horizons and enhance your vocabulary.   You’ll need a larger vocabulary anyway, to go with your fabulous new grammar skills. Plus, now you’ll be able to talk tech at your next family function, and truly earn yourself the title of “My Cousin the Computer Geek”.

This week’s term: Trackbacks  

By special request, today we’re going to talk about Trackbacks, boys and girls! 

Trackbacks are really cool, because they essentially drive traffic to your site. Or, if you link to someone else, they drive your traffic to that person’s site. Be careful, though, because if you write about how you don’t like someone and you link to them, all you’re doing is giving them more traffic!

See this picture? That’s as basic as you can get. I borrowed this image from Doug Karr. Thanks, Doug!

Now I’ll give you an example of how they work and why you want trackbacks. We’ll use RSS Pieces and Sellsius as our examples. I recently wrote an article all about Sellsius’ visit to Cape Coral. In my article, I linked to their blog. That way, my readers can go check out the Sellsius blog after reading what I had to say about Sellsius. That’s good for me, because now Sellsius likes me even more because I linked to them (and in return they linked back to me), and it’s good for them, because people visited their site at my suggestion.  

So remember, Trackbacks are your friend.

For more on Trackbacks, check out this article, also by Doug Karr.

for the techie.

And here’s the Wikipedia article on Trackbacks.

If you have a term floating around in your head, and you'd like to know more about it, let me know.  I'll do the investigating and share my findings.  Hopefully you all learned something, and I look forward to continually adding to your vocabulary!

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