Trackbacks
Jan 30th, 2007 by Dre
When submitting a story to Allyuh you are allowed to leave a Trackback with the submission. If a blog has Trackbacks enabled the field will auto-complete but can also be entered and changed manually.
This is the field from the second step of the submit page that creates the Trackbacks.

For content creators such as blogs it is a good practice to allow Trackbacks as this automatically notifies you in your comments when a story has been posted to Allyuh.
For those unfamiliar with Trackbacks a quick snippet from Wikipedia
A Trackback is simply an acknowledgment. This acknowledgment is sent via a network signal (ping) from Site A (originator) to Site B (receptor). The receptor often publishes a link back to the originator indicating its worthiness. Trackback requires both Site A and Site B to be Trackback enabled in order to establish this communication. Trackback does not require for Site A to physically link to Site B.
Trackbacks are used primarily to facilitate communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack ping”; the receiving blog will typically display summaries of, and links to, all the commenting entries below the original entry. This allows for conversations spanning several blogs that readers can easily follow.
On Allyuh, Trackbacks to the submissions are automatically generated whenever the story is posted continuing the communication link. These can be seen toward the bottom of each item and looks similar to the image below.


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