Trackback?

Posted In Tutorials - By Geoserv On Friday, April 18th, 2008 With 25 Comments

Trackback InfoTrackbacks have been one of the biggest downfalls of Pligg. While the feature is built in, it has never worked properly or at all.

On step 2 of the submission process, there is a field at the bottom that will auto populate if Pligg can find the trackback on the source page, or you can enter it manually. No matter what you enter here, Pligg will not ping the source to tell it that it has been mentioned on your Pligg website.

After playing around with this feature, I came up with a way to get this to work in v9.8.2.

On step 1, rather than putting the URL, for example,

Free Online Image Editor

enter the trackback instead. So, it would be,

Free Online Image Editor – Trackback.

This will ping the source and a trackback to your Pligg will be placed on the source URL.

This is because once you submit at step 1, your Pligg does ping the source so it can auto-populate the ‘title’ field.

I have gotten dozens of trackbacks for one of my Pliggs using this method.

I have not come up with or found a way to get trackbacks working in v9.9.0, if you have a tip, please leave a comment.

Now, get trackbacking!

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    Nice workaround, thanks for sharing this.

  • http://Doesitworkwith9.9.0? Sérgio

    Hi!

    Very great contributions as always!

    Does this works with Pligg 9.9.0?

    Thank you!

  • http://www.newsdots.com Geoserv

    No it doesn’t. I am working on the 9.9.0 issue.

    Will post if i am able to come up with something.

    Geoserv

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    So the person submitting the article would add their url plus the word track back?

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  • http://www.newsdots.com Geoserv

    Brian,

    Yes, thats exactly how it works. I have had great success with this in attaining backlinks and traffic.

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    Hello, nice site :)

  • http://pablosavard.com Chessmaster

    hmmm, i’m like 3 months late. I’m trying to configure the trackback, all i have is three dots for trackback. Any help on how i would change that? i added my url site in the trackback admin config

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    Check in your Admin panel under Config > Trackback, what do you have entered there?

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  • http://wwden.com Webmaster Den

    I have version 9.9 installed on a few sites and trackback feature seems to work fine.
    It is a nuce thing – you give a trackback/comment to the blog submitted and may get the link in return (ofcourse if they display trackbacks together with comments in the blog)

    The only thing Pligg sites owners should do is change the text for the trackback author – I hate to see comments from “Vote submitted for your blog on the blah… blah… blah… The name should be configured (in the language file) to say something like “domain.com” or “Blog Rating Portal”…

    Keep up the good work here, nice site!

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    TrackBack is a mechanism for 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.

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