Sirius Stuff

I’ve never really understood the differences between “pingback” and “trackback”.  Google likes to display older articles, which has interesting effects  The first thing that I found that tried to explain the differences was published more than 3 years ago and has way more detail than I want.  But this whitepaper led me to more resources on pingback and trackback.

If I can summarize:

Pingback

• Just ping a blog (or whatever) with your own blogging software
• No detail about what you said about them
• Receiver doesn’t link back to you

Trackback

• Details about what was said
• Receiver can link back if they want. 

SixApart has a trackback technical doc that explains more.