Title: backtracks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# backtracks

 *  [johnny8544](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny8544/)
 * (@johnny8544)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backtracks/)
 * I have a blog and readers send me backtracks. Please explain what is a backtrack,
   how does one create and send one to a blog, the purpose of a backtrack, how it
   is used, how do i respond to backtracks i receive and if you have any useful 
   links to helpful topics please send them to me.
 * Thanks.
 * John

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 *  [businesslogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businesslogs/)
 * (@businesslogs)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backtracks/#post-1954161)
 * Try reading these:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks)
   
   [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback)
 * It’s basically a mechanism to notify someone’s site that you’ve linked to one
   of their posts. In modern blogging systems you don’t really have to do anything
   but link to the post. Once you hit publish that trackback notification gets sent.

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