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hello, me again asking for help lol, I know there are alot of affiliates who use wordpress to build and manage their sites so could someone please help me with explaining what pingbacks are and how do they affect me. I ask because i have just opened the blog comments feature on my slot cheats guide site, i want to see if people will discuss some of the guides on their and help with seo through user generated comments but i am starting to get ‘Pingbacks’ i dont know what these are and i dont know if they are a good thing, should i block them? thanks in advance for help
Pingback
Pingback lets you notify the author of an article if you link to his article (article on a blog, of course). If the links you include in an article you write on a blog lead to a blog which is pingback-enabled, then the author of that blog gets a notification in the form of a pingback that you linked to his article.You’ll usually see pingbacks being mentioned with trackbacks, trackbacks are :
Trackback
Trackback helps you to notify another author that you wrote something related to what he had written on his blog, even if you don’t have an explicit link to his article. This improves the chances of the other author sitting up and noticing that you gave him credit for something, or that you improved upon something he wrote, or something similar. With pingback and trackback, blogs are interconnected. Think of them as the equivalents of acknowledgements and references at the end of an academic paper, or a chapter in a textbook.shamelessly copied from WordPress Glossary:
Pingback
TrackbackYou will get spam coming through on pingbacks and trackbacks. I’d suggest enabling the akismet spam plugin which comes with wordpress.
thanks rak but i also read this when i looked it up, but i was wondering if it is a good thing? would it help with seo because it counts as a link?
Hi,
I’ve read an article recently called “Link others to get traffic”. Apparently pings and trackbacks do count as a link, however if you are like me you have used Akismet already to block them. This would mean that the pingback/trackback won’t show up as a blog comment.
I have a lot of spam coming from scraper sites, and to be honest, I haven’t seen any benefits for their trackback to my site. Soon or later they get banned anyways and stop existing.
For an year and a half Akismet has blocked about 13.5k pingback/trackback comments, I am pretty sure I would have felt the benefit if there was any from 13k links.
Regards,
