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  • noun Plural form of pingback.

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  • There are also nifty ways for authors of other blogs to leave comments without even visiting the blog! Called "pingbacks" or "trackbacks", they can inform other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own articles.

    Codex - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • There are also nifty ways for authors of other blogs to leave comments without even visiting the blog! Called "pingbacks" or "trackbacks", they can inform other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own articles.

    Codex - Recent changes [en] Maria Yong 2010

  • There are also nifty ways for authors of other blogs to leave comments without even visiting the blog! Called "pingbacks" or "trackbacks", they can inform other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own articles.

    Codex - Recent changes [en] Themedaily 2010

  • There are also nifty ways for authors of other blogs to leave comments without even visiting the blog! Called "pingbacks" or "trackbacks", they can inform other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own articles.

    Codex - Recent changes [en] Singpolyma 2010

  • There are also nifty ways for authors of other blogs to leave comments without even visiting the blog! Called "pingbacks" or "trackbacks", they can inform other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own articles.

    Codex - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • In the case of the regular bloggers (who were the ones who responded quickly), I have a hunch they have their blogs set up to accept pingbacks, which are notifications that someone has linked to their blogs (for lack of a better definition), followed the pingback, and saw the post.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » April 2010

  • I use Google alerts too, as well as following the pingbacks.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Online Networking 3 (Networking Part Nine) 2010

  • In the case of the regular bloggers (who were the ones who responded quickly), I have a hunch they have their blogs set up to accept pingbacks, which are notifications that someone has linked to their blogs (for lack of a better definition), followed the pingback, and saw the post.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Online Networking 3 (Networking Part Nine) 2010

  • I hardly ever get any comments or pingbacks so its more of a "note-to-self" blog.

    Achieve Your Goals By Keeping Them Quiet | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Right, well, that should have set up a nice little infinite loop of recursive pingbacks, then.

    So then. Questioning Transphobia… 2009

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