As referenced from the WordPress site at (http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Trackback), trackback helps you to notify another author that you wrote something related to what he had written on his blog, even if you don't have an explicit link to his article. This improves the chances of the other author noticing that you gave him credit for something, or that you improved upon something he wrote, or something similar.
NOTE: With pingback and trackback, blogs are interconnected.. However these feature is a major cause of spam. Trackpacks create automatic comments on
Wordpress blogs notifying the owner that someone on another website has
linked to the site. An email is generated for every trackback and 99%
of trackbacks are spam. As such we do not recommend the installation of these features on your WordPress as the site will be prone to high volumes of unsolicited mail resulting in deactivation of sendmail.
To add Trackback URL's to your WordPress blog site, follow these instructions:
2. Click Applications
3. Click WordPress
4. For the WordPress blog you wish to administer, click the corresponding Admin link
5. For a new Post, click Write and then click Write Posts. For an existing Post, click Manage, and then click Edit on thePost you wish to add Trackback URL's to
7. Scroll down to Trackbacks section and click the "+" sign
8. Enter URL's (separate each URL by a space)
9. Click Save
Trackbacks and pings can be disabled in the options menu in Wordpress. You can also issue the following SQL statement to turn off trackback/pings on
existing posts:
UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status="closed"
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