Are Pingbacks Potential Spam - Should I Approve Them

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I recently started article marketing and this morning I keep getting these WP email notices:
A new pingback on the post #25 "article name here" is waiting for your approval http://mymoneysitewherethearticleresourceboxpoints.com

Website : Myarticlename | Site that Published my article (IP:**)
URL : http://sitethatpublished**/myarticlename

Approve it: a link
Delete it: a link
Spam it: a link

Currently 2 comments are waiting for approval. Please visit the moderation panel:

The comments in the approval que point back to the article I published, but I'm not interested in sending people back out of my site. If I reject the comments, am I rejecting a pingback as well?

What is a Pingback anyhow

Sorry if this is a dumb question.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #approve #pingbacks #potential #spam
  • I want to know too - and there ARE no dumb questions.
  • I'm no expert by any means, but a pingback is just a notification that someone has linked to one of your posts/articles.

    I get what I consider to be quite a lot of pingback spam. These seem to come from places just looking to get a backlink for themselves. Many are automated and from locations that I do not feel are desirable to link to. They are deleted.

    Others come from legitimate sites and are usually approved, especially if they are related to my blogs content.

    Hopefully, a quick and helpful description.
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    • Does approving the pingback do you any good? Like does it get you a link? I get so many of these I'd like to ignore them unless they help me in some way.
  • A lot of blogs have pingbacks turned-off and some that don't
    have pingbacks that don't work. Pingback is a really cool feature
    that was damaged by spammers a few years back. Additionally,
    a lot of people don't understand it so many bloggers don't have
    it turned on.

    When you get a pingback comment on your blog, it's supposed
    to mean somebody has referenced your post, which is a cool thing,
    right?

    In a world where bloggers care about delivering good content
    pingbacks are a a way to share the love. Unfortunately,
    owners of crap blogs will also use pingbacks to try to get
    your good blog to link to their crap blog.

    So - the verdict is (imo) pingbacks are cool if you're getting
    them from bloggers who care. If you're getting them from
    crap bloggers, delete 'em.
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    • Thanks for that explanation. I never knew what they were used for either but always suspected they could somehow get hijacked so I left that feature unused.

      Ultimately if this could negatively affect my blog in any way I'll just chose to leave it off and find other ways to get good juice. I've lived without it this long so... *shrug*
  • If you look at your WP dashboard, there is a setting where you can "attempt to notify other blogs that you have linked to them." I believe that is what produces the pings you are speaking of. I usually get them when someone publishes one of my articles from EZA on their blog. The author credit link in the post triggers the WP platform of the blog that is posting the article to ping my blog and let me know that the article has been posted.

    There are several things you can do with the pings. You can simply delete them, you can follow the links to see where your article was posted at, or you can plug the link into something like Yahoo site explorer and find all of the backlink sources that site has used, and then delete the ping.

    I never approve pings, I will sometimes allow them to build up in my queue until I have enough to be worth investigating, but generally I just delete them. Pings are a good thing and it means your articles are interesting and valuable to other people.

    Steve
  • I allow legit ones, but the pingback/trackback, I deny if obvious spam; follow the link to THEIR blog, insult their mother and leave link to one of my money sites that spawns 2x windows with each exit attempt... Buahahaha
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