Pingback and Trackback....Good or Bad?
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Any successes or disappointments with pingbacks or trackbacks? I understand your posts are automatically linked to others but it seems that other bloggers can use your info without commenting on your posts/pages.....
Thoughts?
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Still a little confused(might be the blonde in me). :P. What if you get a trackback from a really trashy site-do you not need to worry about it unless you approve the trackback?
Thanks.
The only track back requests I get are from competitors and wanna-be's. There are lots of other effective ways to increase rankings without hooking up with brown-nosers! Lol
Do you know if it hurts when you get a trackback from a spammy site, or that's only if you approve the trackback?
Thanks. :)
Hey Caninable, thank you. I didn't approve mine. How annoying they are though. I can turn them off I know, but was just curious.
Thanks.
One less thing to worry about! You're better off without it. Conentrate more on useful plug-ins and widgets that will keep USEFUL visitors coming back.
This will help sort the grain from the chaff:
http://wppluginsatoz.com/
Keep sluggin'!
~Wes
I think spaming it will help prevent a return visit. If not, just trash it. It shouldn't do anything unless you approve it. Kyle told me even some spam still sneaks through..
Ken
Hi Ken and Tali. Thank you for asking this. These two items just confuse me. I have to approve any comments in my dashboard before they are published, so if I see a pingback or trackback in there, I delete the comment if I don't like the website. One comment I had, was to a facebook page written in Thai I think. If I can't understand someone's site, they've got no chance of me approving any trackbacks.
I'm considering turning them off, if they are of no benefit. But it'll be interesting to see what other members say. I must try and find some training here at WA on them.
I will be doing the same. From these inputs and other research I've done, there truly is no other added benefit to having them, especially with the negative potential to your site. Thanks for the input!
Ken
Hey Annie. You can turn them off in Settings > Discussion > Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks). I'm just always curious about who's linking to me, so I keep them on to find out and then delete them. :D Rich.
Hi, Talimont1! I like to learn from others and often do "quote" their work. But, I am always careful to attribute by "quotation marks" and ---Name! Perhaps, some do NOT know how to do it, but maybe they can learn from your article! I agree with you, while copying may be a form of flatter, doing without "attribution" is awful and totally unprofessional, in my opinion! Thanks for the follow and I agree with you
I just delete them. http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Pingbacks and http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Trackbacks :) Rich.
If pingbacks and trackbacks are not good, then why are spammers keep on using them til now? Are they that stupid?
I imagine because many Wordpress users don't turn them off, so it's an easy way to spam links onto other people's websites.
Sometimes I wonder what motivates the spammers, if they also know that others already knew of their tactics.
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i kept having pingback from one of my post . not sure what this means and what to do . any help ?
Does it show in comments and maybe it tells you it is in moderation? Go to this particular post and approve it.