The other day, Roxanne emailed, asking, “What's a blog trackback,” a question, which completely strained the limits of my webby knowledge.
I went to Wikipedia and looked, but still have only a vague sense of a trackback having something to do with links. I link to you. You link to me. Easy as can be.
What's a trackback, then? Is it like a virtual footprint that you've come, toured my site and linked? A notification that you've linked? And if so, where is this supposed notification?
Then there are tags, meta tags, keywords and cloud tags, the role of which, makes only partial sense. Maybe you can illuminate? I find that my site gets spammed--hammered with unmentionable links--whenever I include a headline with the words “monkey,” “love,” “good reading,” “odd” or “pod.” (Makes you wonder what people do in their spare time, doesn't it?)
So is there some kind of sniffer that roams web sites looking for bad words like “plenty,” “sparkle” or, God forbid, “panties“? Does that make these bad words, then, keywords, tags, or meta tags.
I'm very confused. Would love to disembowel my particular spam cartel. And absolutely outraged that I only linked to pornographers who speak Italian.
Anyway to end the madness?