Trackbacks and how to abuse them
The inimitable Chris Garrett has written a nice little explanation on Trackbacks and why you should use them.
See that line above? The whole “read the full story here” bit? That is a dodgey way to get more visitors. The reason is because when your trackback gets posted to the “recipient” site, it generally puts an excerpt of your post surrounding the link as the comment on the site. Now, if you have a really enticing “comment” that is placed in the comments section of the other site, you might draw visitors to your site.
It may not always work, depending on how your trackback gets formatted because some sites just have the post title as the trackback, and others use some of your post’s text.
Now, I am REALLY not condoning this, but I have been a “victim” to this before. I had a BEAUTIFUL post with a ton of info, and a lot of comments. But one of the comments just had “read more info here”, so a lot of my visitors were leaving there. I didn’t really mind as a lot of those visitors returned, but it was a decent lesson.
So, go on, teach me a lesson. Send me some trackbacks. 
