Following a long period in which we battled trackback spam, the entire trackback function just seemed to stop functioning a while back. Since it has been some months now since any legitimate trackback has registered, I’ve turned the whole function off rather than potentially mislead newcomers about its availability. Technorati remains the most convenient way of seeing whether we’ve been linked lately on other sites.
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Sadly, I just did the same thing on my site. It’ sort of an end to an era. To some extent I built my traffic in the first place from trackbacks. People would follow the trackbacks to see what I was saying about the post.
One thing I left out — the good news is that Typepad’s CAPTCHA function has almost totally wiped out comment bot spam, such that I have been able to get out of the business of moderating comments in advance.