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,