Trackbacks for Blogger Users
For a while now I have been lamenting the lack of a trackback feature for anyone using blogger.com as their blogging software. It was one of the primary reasons for me moving from blogger to Wordpress. Since I have moved over to Wordpress I am liking it very much, I don’t think I have begun to explore all the possibilities yet but I must say I love what I can do already.
For people still on blogger though there is a solution of sorts: the backlinks feature. Backlinks work by doing a blog search for the URL of the post and then appending the link of the person who has linked to you on the bottom of your post. The help page has more details and describes how to turn backlinks on (under the settings | comments tab), the template changes that might be required for older templates to incorporate backlinks and how backlinks can be turned off for individual posts.
I know some of my regular readers use Blogger.com so I thought I would point them to this little tip so that they can get notification when I comment on their blogs. Of course if you want full trackback and commenting support on blogger or other blogging software that doesn’t support trackbacks there is always Haloscan’s free trackback service.
