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Help, My Trackbacks have been Kidnapped!

by Deceth

Yesterday I wrote an article exploring the possibility of whether bullets were killing my trackbacks. I came to the conclusion that they were definitely guilty of the crime and that I should therefore stop linking to sites within bullet or numbered lists in order to ensure my trackbacks do work!

Within my post, I linked to two example articles of Web Dev Connection posts which I write on my blog that provide links to other interesting articles online. These links were within a paragraph, so technically they should have created trackbacks to my own articles! Well guess what… One of my trackbacks was kidnapped or abducted during delivery!

Go back to my post from yesterday and click the two links! You will see that only the first one has a trackback comment from the article in which I linked to it… For some reason, the second article did not get a trackback comment despite my linking to it!

So what the heck is going on? Did the trackback not work because it was too close to another link in my article? I really don’t think that should matter! However, is it possible that you can only post one trackback to a particular website within a certain time frame? This could be completely possible to avoid sites being spammed with hundreds of pings and hundreds of comments. When you think about it, wouldn’t it be annoying if I could write an article containing thousands of links and thus spam someones whole website with comments!

So what have we learned today? Well, if you have read two very interesting articles that are on the same blog and you not only wish to link to them but also create a trackback in the comments of both articles, then you should not write about both in the same post! Only the first ping will produce the trackback, and the other will be ignored!

What are your experiences with trackbacks failing? Do you think the above conclusions are logical? Please share your opinions on the matter and any troubles you may have encountered!


Posted in General, Marketing, SEO on June 20th, 2007

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