What Is Trackback

Steve Outing, at the Poynter Institute E-Media Tidbits provides a good refresher for newbies and self-learners alike on the topic of trackback.

"Trackback is an automatic way for your website to notify other sites when you publish a link to them -- so that they know you're talking about them. If you're still confused about how, exactly, trackback works...."

Here's a nifty set of reference articles and tutorials:

a) How trackback works

b) A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack

c) Amy Gahran's News Sites Should Use TrackBack

d) Trackback as an authority building tool