LinkBacks - LinkBack is a generalized term used to reference 3 seperate methods of communication between Websites.
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 phisically link to Site B.
Why use LinkBacks? (Trackbacks, Pingbacks and Refbacks) Because they allow you to notify another site that you have written something related to what is already written on a specific page. This improves the chances of contributors to this page noticing that you gave them credit for something, or that you have improved or added to what they wrote. Websites are interconnected. Think of them as references at the end of an academic paper; or a chapter in a textbook.
Linkbacks have long been a major force in the development of the blogging network world by creating an interconnected series of blogs and posts acknowledging one another. Not only does this improve the general community enviornment throughout the blog-sphere, but it helps to make blogs much more powerful link-building tools.
Links built via this method are highly relevant and don't have any of the disadvantages generally associated with those crappy old "link farms" or "link exchange programs" which are useless.
The LinkBack principle has moved on from blogs to other publishing platforms like news content systems and forums. ARefback is also a link. However in this case, Site A (the link originator) does not need to "tell" anything to Site B (receptor). Instead, the receptor Site finds this link immediately after the first web visitor gets to the site by clicking on the link. This is done by analyzing information carried by this visitor's browser referer header.
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by Victoria Van Ness 17 months ago
What's the point in keeping us from linking to our own work in our articles? That's how we increase traffic to our articles!
by Cody Hodge 11 years ago
Hi Guys!I was wondering what tactics some of you use to gain natural backlinks to your hubs. I've read about using Yahoo Answers and am trying to find article directories that offer more than just spammy or unnatural links. I know writers like to keep things close to the vest if they work well, but...
by TerryGl 5 years ago
There are many .edu and .gov sites at the moment that allow a back link through either a blog dofollow comment or forum profile dofollow link.I have about three hundred such links that are auto approved in joining the forum or making a comment. ( I know, the list is gold).My question is, has anyone...
by sunforged 15 years ago
If you do I want to know about it? Ill hook you up with a backlink and a short summary on one of my smaller sites.Go ahead just give me the link here!This is for a fun site for me, a blogger blog I made before realizing that art is not a profitable niche! So I get to it when I get to it.But Ill...
by belief713 15 years ago
Hi All,I'm looking to see if anyone is interested in exchanging links with our Hubs? It will help to boost our rankings in Google and also our HubScores so it will help us both out.I have the following topics:Health (natural, vitamins, similar)Mothering (baby, breastfeeding, similar)Work at home...
by Carl "Fitness" 15 years ago
It would be very helpful for newbies if HubPages added some context-sensitive (inline) help links near the "ads" level setting drop down box on the settings tab for new hub posts. (That's where you set the level to none, low, medium, high.) For example, adding a little...
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