Webmention is a simple protocol for responding to a page on a website.
It works as so:
- You create a page on your site (the “source”) responding to an article or something on another site (the “target”).
- You find the webmention endpoint for the target page and hit it with a HTTP request describing the source and target pages.
- The webmention server for the target page processes it in their own time and does something with it, such as displaying a link back to your page on the target page.
More info:
If you don’t have a webmention sender set up, but you still want to send me a mention, you can use this handy form!