« Quick News from Around the Net
Last.fm Has an Annoying Fault »

Trackback This

Share/Bookmark Print This Post

Hypertext Editing System (HES) IBM 2250 Display console – Brown University 1969Good Morning scribkin readership!

If you operate a blog, and that blog supports sending a trackback, I have a simple request for you.  I have adjusted the trackback URL on this article to point to (what I think) the Disqus service will use.

Next time you post, please include a link to this article (no need to link to anything other than the standard article URL) and we will see if the Disqus trackback feature works as advertised.

Thanks!

Related articles

PS – Shey Smith is doing something similar on his blog.

PPS – According to this article I am not doing the trackback correctly.  Trying again.

posted June 18th, 2008 in Followup, Statistics, Status | Tags: , ,

  • kenmat
  • Yeah.. I am periodically checking my comment logs to see if the ping shows up.. nothing yet.
  • Are you sure you're using trackbacks and not pingbacks?
  • kenmat
    Hi, Daniel! I'm sorry I'm not good at using trackbacks actually. Could you please tell me the difference between trackbacks and pingbacks? Thanks!
  • Nope.. not sure.

    However, according to the link below, I guess what we are doing is
    pingbacks. I will update my post with a full trackback.

    http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/ping/
  • The server at tamba2 (see link in my other comment) helpfully allows people to test trackbacks and pingbacks from their demo WP install. I sent a few out from this link, and I also used one of my articles to send that article a trackback to their trackback URL. My trackback to them was logged successfully, their trackbacks to two of my articles either failed or did not show up in Disqus.
  • Thanks for the info. We're still working out the issue.
  • Phil, I had the same issue as well : http://www.sheysmith.com/2008/06/17/testing-dis...

    I'll try and ping your post
  • Well, it looks like your site pinged mine just fine -- but either ignored the custom trackback URL or Disqus hasn't registered it yet, because, as you can see below, only recorded in one place.
  • Ok, I give up. I changed the trackback URL on this article, and now I'm not getting ANY trackbacks! Argh.
  • Now will try to ping your Disqus trackback URL: http://scribkin.disqus.com/trackback_this/track...
  • Ok, go for it. :)
  • nothing :(
  • I was trying to send trackbacks to Disqus from my site & it was failing (WordPress, self hosted), but when I captured the post request that was being sent by my site & pasted that into Fiddler & recreated the request it worked fine. Now that was truly odd
blog comments powered by Disqus