I’ve never seen the admin panel from typepad, but I know I’ve had lots of people send me trackbacks from that system, so it must be possible.

For simplicy, I didn’t discuss the manual way to add a trackback in the previous comment, but here goes. This will be for WordPress, but I can only imagine that TypePad will have similar functionality. When I’m preparing a post, there is a field called trackback. In order to manually send a trackback, you can search for a trackback link that is often provided for a post.

To complicate things, the theme that I’m using here on RCG doesn’t provide a trackback link and I’ve never bothered to include it. Nonetheless, it is possible to leave a trackback to a post on RCG by simply adding the word “trackback” to the end of the post URL.

For example, if you wanted to leave a trackback to this post, here is what you would do.
1) Provide a link to this post in your text (this is a requirement or the trackback won’t get processed)
2) In the trackback field of your post, paste the following URL: http://www.raincityguide.com/2006/08/23/valuing-homes-for-buyers/trackback/
3) Publish your post.

Again, for most blogging platforms, this is all done automatically and behind the scenes. Also, because trackbacks have been sooooo heavily abused by spammers, many people have simply turned trackbacks off, so don’t expect trackbacks to work on all blogs.

I hope this helps!

Sometimes saying no can work wonders.

If using the right platform, then a trackback require no work on the blogger’s part… WordPress, TypePad, and other platforms automatically ping the appropriate servers that cause trackbacks to show up just like they were a comment. For some reason, Google has neglected to build this technology into Blogger, so Todd you’re pretty much out of luck. (Ardell, you have the same problem on your personal blog because you are using Internet Crusaders blog and they don’t have this technology figured out yet either.) Todd, I did notice that people can trackback to your blog because you’re using the haloscan plugin for blogger, but that won’t help you leave a trackback on RCG.

Is that what makes the text show up in blue background?

I went to a 3 clock hour class on technology and learned nothing new except playing with the mortgage guy’s phone and bluetooth.