In most blog applications, there is a feature called Trackback, which allows the user to send a trackback or notification to a different site or another blog that the user referred to in his own blog. Its main purpose is to notify another site or weblog that you are talking about that site or weblog or its contents in your own weblog. Blog applications WordPress and Movable Type, to name a few, have this facility. When the blog’s owner receives the notification through his or her blogging software, the said software will display the pertinent part of your blog post in their website’s comments section.
We might all have experienced receiving tons of spam email, and more recently, many bloggers have received blog comment spam through their personal sites. Trackback spam, on the other hand, is yet another underhanded means of some Internet users and Web-based entrepreneurs to promote their business, and consequently gain income. Moreover, this is what they do to establish links to their own sites on other websites, in order to move their sites up in page rankings of Google search engine. Essentially, trackback spam are bogus trackbacks, a false notification that...