Sandra from Brighton (MI), asks:
Can you explain what a pingback is?
A pingback is when another blog links to an article on your blog and their blogging software automatically notifies your blogging software of the link (also works with websites). Usually blogging software will then put a link on your article with a link to the page linking to it. Sounds a bit confusing, but it just lets you and your readers know who has linked to a particular article and posts a link to it so anyone can go see what was said.
Since part of blogging is having a conversation, pingbacks make it possible to know when someone may be saying something about what you’ve said. Reversely, if you comment on someone else’s articles, they’ll know about it. It’s also a way to get some extra traffic to your blog – readers often follow links to get more information on a particular subject.
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