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I finally figured out what trackbacs are and how to configure them in WordPress (not that it was that hard). Essentially, when you link to another “blog” that blog gets notified that there’s another blogger writing about it. In WordPress, the trackback settings are in the “Options->Discussion” section, and you should check all of the relevant options, see image below:

There’s a great article on problogger.net that does a great job at explaining this particular topic. I do need to learn more about them to understand how one gets notified when there’s a trackback as well as if there are any stats about trackbacks that can be quantified and measured. The article can be found here:

Introduction to Trackbacks

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