Townhall.com Podcasting Questions

How do I actually DO a trackback. (Some of us are not as intuitive as this site requires.)

Hey Ian,

Its actually fully automatic. If the site you are linking to accepts trackbacks, they will get "pinged" with a trackback request. If another site links to your blog, your trackback list will automaticly receive any trackback requests and list them there.

Nothing to it!

Josue
http://josue.townhall.com

I must be doing something wrong. To ping the trackback for this article, I clicked on trackbacks, and copied the link. Then I took that link and embedded it in my blog posting, by creating a hyperlink out of it. It didn't work. Exactly what must I do then, because I'm braindead at this point?

Ian:
The trackback url is for people who must do a manual trackback in their blogging software. The software we wrote for Townhall does it automatically, so all you have to do is link to a post directly using its permalink. Our blog posts permalinks will always be the url that you get by clicking on the title of the blog post. For example, the permalink for the post we're commenting on is http://townhalltechie.townhall.com/g/4a75c9b5-fc39-4a07-999b-b20ae7ba3e1e
If you wanted to trackback to this post, you would just use that url.

I just posted a new blog, and it appears at my site when I click onto it from the townhall page, but when I go to sheilafrush.townhall.com it's not posted! Any answers? I checked the appropriate box.

Thanks, you guys are awesome!

for a post I wrote a few days ago.. It would be helpful to have a search feature that allows users to peruse blogs that have more frequent posts. Every time I use the "next blog" button, I cycle thru what seems to be the same 10-15 blogs, most of which haven't posted in over a month. Can we create a "frequent poster" category?

Thanks in advance!

I can't download individual podcasts from old shows (HH specifically). I've been trying for days now. Wazzup?!

/s/ GS