A backlink is a generic term for any kind of link from any website to your own webite. All backlinks are good, but typically a backlink from a page with a higher page rank is better.

A trackback is a way for bloggers to acknowledge each other e.g if I write a blog post and I want to talk about a post that another blogger has made, I may want this other blogger to know that I am talking about him/her. What I can do is publish the trackback URL for their blog post in my trackbacks. With wordpress there is a specific place to enter trackback URLs whenever you make a post to your blog. The blogger that I am sending the trackback to will be notified of that trackback.

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Suzanne

I have enjoyed your newsletter and I am finding it very helpful. I am new to this and can you explain to be the difference between a trackback and a backlink? Are they ther same? Which is better?

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