When I link to a Wordperss blog, most of the time I can just use pingback which autodiscovers the trackback URL for any blog I link to within a post and sends a trackback to the blog owner.

On some WordPress blogs they have removed the pingback code to reduce spam. Fair enough I enter a trackback URL if I want to give them a signal that I have written something that might be worth their while reading.

On Blogger there are now linkbacks powered by Google blogsearch, so you can tell who has linked to you. A Blogger user can also send a trackback using a convenient script.

If I am sending a trackback to many other blogging platforms, I normally have to grab a specific trackback URL from their posts. It is a little inconvenient, but I still do it.

Typepad & Moveable Type Users – Are You Whispering About Me?

That is what it seems like anyway…

Typepad & Moveable Type blogs can receive trackbacks, so I am sure they are meant to be able to send them as well, maybe with auto detection but I have a feeling they don’t offer that functionality.

So you probably have to send a trackback manually filling in a field in your posting form. I am not going to register with Typepad just to write a tutorial on how to do it, but I would gladly link to one.

Having just done a search, I couldn’t find a simple tutorial teaching people how to send a trackback from Typepad to different blogging platforms. It seems like a no-brainer article to have on the first page of results.

So please someone write a tutorial so I can link to it

This blog post was inspired by Amy, maybe she will write a great tutorial. She was lucky I saw her link in Technorati, but I am sure I miss half the times people link to me, either because they link to my domain rather than my content, or because they don’t send trackbacks.

Alternatively one of Mikes students should do it, or maybe lots of people. Mike has to rest even though he is back home, so I refuse to link to him if he writes it.

We are looking for a comprehensive write-up with screenshots.

Your blogging software has already notified Feedburner, and most likely Feedburner have already picked up your feed, and using their Pingshot feature, have already notified lots of sites to come and index your feed or site.

What can you do?

Refresh Feedburner

• First of all, you need to edit your post. My most frequent mistake is forgetting to include tags with a post, so it is not as vital to update as soon as possible, because it might take a while before Technorati comes calling.
• Secondly you need to visit Feedburner. Their preferred method is for you to reping your blog.
• I have tried using the ping option, but often I am in a rush. One of the primary reasons is that RSS readers like Google Reader typically only cache one copy of your feed. Under “Troubleshootize” there is an option for Resync. Hit that button and the copy of your feed stored by Feedburner is fixed, almost immediately.



• I have a bookmark to resync my most active blogs

Technorati Pings

Technorati provide for a way to have a bookmark to ping them. It is not very useful if you have multiple blogs to have that many bookmarks.

Some time ago I hacked together this little Javascript Widget which can Ping Technorati for any site you are currently viewing. This isn’t something that Technorati provide on their own widget page.
You can just drag that bookmark code to your bookmarks and click it to ping Technorati for any site.

javascript:location.href='http://technorati.com/ping/?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)

(one of these days I will learn how to escape this code correctly so that it doesn’t get mangled by WordPress)