Well that worked like a charm the first time. (How often does that happen?) I had to guess about exactly what link to use in the trackback field. What you do is go to the permanent page for the post you want to trackback to. Then just copy the URL from the address bar and add “/trackback/” to the end.
The excerpt it produced could be neater. Here is what it displayed:
than wait to see if those trackbacks are approved by those other editors, I will try one on my own divorce blog. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howardmackinnon.com%2Fblog-marketing-trackbacks-part-2%2F’; …
Pretty ugly. It was only a short post so maybe it stuck that “addurl” stuff in the fill up space. The heading of the comment appearing on the divorce blog was an active link back to my post and that’s the main thing - getting a backlink (or a trackback).
I wonder whether Google views this any differently than reciprocal links.