I am having little hard time to understand what Movable Type's TrackBack means to me, so I read the Movable Type manual myself:
Movable Type’s Trackback system allows peer-to-peer communication and conversations between weblogs. Imagine that you write about a movie you just saw in an entry on your Movable Type-powered weblog. Another MT weblogger reads your entry, and wants to write an entry referencing your original post. He/she could just comment on your weblog, but he’d like to keep the post in his own database and host it on his site.
If you would like to discuss about my blog entry in your blog, simply hit here to grab the trackback URL and you need to have your own Movable Type system to put this URL into your new entry page:
How can I make Trackback in my blog?
Okay, things getting complicated for me to set up the trackback on my blog. Here is the first step for me to edit the index, category, and monthly page to set up the link trackback icon in my headline entry:<MTEntryIfAllowPings> <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>#trackback"> <img border="0" src="trackback.gif" alt="Trackback this URL"> [<$MTEntryTrackbackCount$>]</a> </MTEntryIfAllowPings>
MTEntryTrackbackCount tag defines the trackback counted in an entry.
In my individual entries, I created the trackback URL into the entry content body:
<MTEntryIfAllowPings> <p> <a name="trackback"></a>Trackback URL: <i><u><$MTEntryTrackbackLink$></i></u> </p> </MTEntryIfAllowPings>
Finally, In my individual entries, I added trackback comment from someone who reference on my original entry:
<MTEntryIfAllowPings>
<div class="comments-head">Trackbacks</div>
<MTPings>
<div class="comments-body">
<a href="<$MTPingURL$>" target="_blank"><$MTPingBlogName$>:
<$MTPingTitle$></a><br/><br/>
<b>Excerpt:</b> <$MTPingExcerpt$>
<a href="<$MTPingURL$>" target="_blank">Read more..</a><br/>
Posted in <$MTPingDate$>
</MTPings>
</div>
</MTEntryIfAllowPings>Okay, One more thing to tell you, you have to enable the ‘Allow Pings’ in your new or existing entries, and Trackback will appear on your entry blog. You can test this on yourself to get their Trackback URL in http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/.
