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Should I approve Pingbacks in WordPress?

by dasongoh
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Hi warriors,

I run a blog and everytime I add a new post I get tons of pingbacks from seemingly unrelated blogs listed under the section "related blogs" of their posts.

Yesterday after adding a new post I get like 40+ pingbacks in a few hours. Is this spam? Should I approve them or delete them permanently? Will approving them lead to big *G thinking I am linking to "bad neighborhood" / unrelated blogs?

Thanks for your help in advance!
#approve #pingbacks #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author parbat
    strange thing , r u using any pluging for autobloging ?
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    • Profile picture of the author dasongoh
      Oh its not. It's not an autoblog but a manual one. Sometimes I do get a few pingbacks for my new posts which I think is normal, but 40+ in a few hours seem like I'm spammed (though they are pingbacks not comments).

      Any idea what is the impact of pingbacks?

      Thanks!
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      • Profile picture of the author NumbersJunkie
        I rarely ever approve mine. They just provide a place for visitors to exist your site and to leak page rank. Unless you have requested the pingbacks and know the blog authors, I say don't approve them to be shown.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Cheetah
    I usually never approve them. Why have outbound links on your site without any reason?
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  • Profile picture of the author pratoocool
    I think you should delete them as this is no use but will only promote others blogs and websites.
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