Just like everybody else in this bussiness I am sensitive to numbers and even more to statistics. At this moment my blog reads 198 posts, 499 comments and 70 trackbacks. The next post, number 200, has to be something special. The next comment as well. But I'm not sure about the third statistic, the number of trackbacks. It is supposed to count the number of times a referal to your blog is posted. Which is hard to follow. When I refer to my neighbours blog his trackback count does not increase, when he refers to mine my number does increase. When I refer to one of my own posts, like my first blog post my number does increase. Some days the trackback count rises fast, other weeks it does not change at all. In other words, the number of trackbacks does imho not stand for anything substantial. The number of views (only visible in the admin section) is far more informative.

A lot of blogs don't display a trackback count at all. Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.

Peter