# Blog question: Trackback and Pinging

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-question-trackback-and-pinging/625063>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 13, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-question-trackback-and-pinging/625063 "2012-06-13T20:56:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-question-trackback-and-pinging/625063/1 "2012-06-13T20:56:07Z")

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1. If a blog post asks for a “trackback URL,” is it asking for the third-party website I am referring to, or is it asking for the URL of the blog post that I’m composing?

2. If I mark “ping URLs” in a blog post, then do I have to bother about trackback URLs at all?

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blog-question-trackback-and-pinging/625063/2 "2012-06-13T21:19:52Z")

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And I guess a follow up to No. 1 is that if the URL is the URL of my blog post, then how am I supposed to know what it is before the post goes live?