Polyfetish

I suspect Google has opted to keep BlogSpot blogs from accepting trackbacks the traditional way is a means of combating trackback spam. I can certainly understand that.

There is a solution of sorts. Not likely to be much implemented since so many BlogSpot bloggers are technically unsophisticated (to say the least).

Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. For instance, suppose Alice writes a blog entry that Bob finds interesting. Bob then goes to his own blog and writes a post of his own about it, linking back to Alice’s original post. Now Alice’s post will automatically show that Bob has linked to it, and it will provide a short snippet of his text and a link to his post. What it all works out to is a way of expanding the comment feature such that related discussions on other sites can be included along with the regular comments on a post.

What are backlinks and how do I use them?