Pingback Requests - What Should I Do With Them??!!

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Hi Guys

Hope someone can help with this as i need to know what to do with all the pingback requests i keep getting.

I get emails all the time with them saying:

A new pingback on the post "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" is waiting for your approval.

This is an excerpt of an article i have distributed. It then gives me the option to either

Approve It:
Trash It:
Spam It:

I know that pingbacks are good, but i can not approve them as they then show up as comments for the post and as they are excerpts they do not look good.

At the moment i am trashing them but would appreciate some genius techy person to give me the lowdown on this.

All the best

Kevin
#programming #pingback #requests
  • You are NOT getting 'pingback requests'... If you tajke the time to read carefully the email notification (which, btw, is set by you to be sent!) it says that you have to approve it. Or not.

    What is "an excerpt"? You should learn what a pingback is...
    Introduction to Blogging « WordPress Codex


    Not a genius but I read the documentation. You should, too!

    They look EXACTLY as they are supposed to look. And, according to your description, they do exactly what they are supposed to do.

    Just because we don't understand certain things... it doesn't mean they are wrong
  • Jesus Christ almighty ..... which side of the bed did you emerge from.

    I do apologise for not being on the same high plane as you but a more curteous response to my question was in order.

    I would hate to be a patient of yours if you were a Doctor. You should take in to acount before replying that some people do not grasp or understand even the simplest of things straight away and need to be guided rather than patronising or demeaning them.

    I guess you can not answer my question yourself so i will indeed check out the links, which i thank you for.

    All the best

    Kevin

    ps: my reference to a genius techy person was meant to be tongue in cheek. Even if it was meant lightheartedly i guess you are not that person.
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    • Just ignore him mate. He's cleary an arrogant idiot. What is the purpose of a forum? To ask and comment on questions? You always get some fool that doesn't understand that.

      To answer your question, my understanding of a Pingback is that it is basically another website's way of telling you that they have placed a link to your site on theirs. In other words it's a backlink. If you approve it, a snippet of the page your backlink is on will then appear in your comments section with a link back to theirs.

      I get loads of pingbacks everyday to my sites, but they are mainly from the articles I have bombed out,so I ignore them. What you can do though is look for a plugin called 'Pingback Power' it is free, and allows you to extract these pingbacks (or backlinks). You can then go to PingFarm.com and ping them yourself so that Google finds them and you get credit for the backlink.

      Now was that so hard to answer in a polite helpful manner? No it wasn't.
      Come on guys, we don't need arrogance and attitude on this forum. There are plenty of those already on the internet. This place is all about people being able to ask and learn about internet marketing.

      All the best.
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  • You have to be really careful, most of these you will get are NOT Pingbacks or trackbacks, they are false comments designed to look like pingbacks, if you follow the link back you will not see the trackback at all.

    Its usually a trick to have you accept it to "return the favor" but it's only in their favor.

    Sometimes as well, you will follow the link and get malware. So be careful and check the security status of the site first.

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  • i get pingback requests all the time so i'm glad i found this thread in the search tab of the WF. it is too easy to get banned around here. i am in the side of the OP and the gentleman who came to his defense. i don't think the response was warranted. people like myself who don't understand this material, sure we could do a google search for it, but i find myself learning better when someone explains a process to me and than just some random google page i find that i cannot interact with.

    Just my opinion, but why defend negative responses. I know this guy has been around a lot longer than us but he still should either ignore the question if it is below him (as it clearly was), or aswer it in a more respectful manner.
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    • Good for you! And I'm not being sarcastic, either. That's what the search feature is for.

      Dunno about that - you have to step pretty far away from the line to get banned.

      That's understandable - and there's nothing wrong with saying, "Listen, I searched for this stuff but I can't really make heads or tails of what I found." If you show that you at least made an effort to learn about something before you impose on someone else's time, you'll gain a lot of respect.

      I can't answer for Istvan of course, but it's not that the answer is below anyone here. The point is that there's a lot more information available throughout the internets on ping- and trackbacks than one could ever hope to find on the WF, and it's painfully obvious that the OPer didn't do any research at all before starting a thread with a question that's been answered numerous times already.
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