Are Pingbacks Good or Bad?

Howard · #1 (**permalink**) 10-14-09, 18:27

I am getting lots of pingbacks on my blog posts. One ties to a somewhat SEO relates articles, and all it says is “Howard posted an informative post on”.. with a pingback link.

In the beginning I was to approve but then I noticed that people were not creating their own original content, they were just “borrowing” for other sites. Various stuffs were linked to other reports with my unique and informative comments covering the quotes.

This morning I got a pingback but referring URL was missing, so I was not able to track anything about, who is referring my stuff or what are they doing with my original content.

So tell me, are pingbacks good or they are bad and when do you approve them or just flush as spam?

Franklin · #2 (**permalink**) 10-15-09, 16:32

Sounds pretty interesting. I am always deleting them as a spam but don’t know whether is the right thing to do.

BodShane · #3 (**permalink**) 10-16-09, 12:35

Here is what exactly refers to pingback :

Pingback is definitely a confusing term. When a blog or article is posted and there is one link in the article or blog, software will ping the link. If the link points to a page on a blog and accepts ping, a pingback will appear in the comment section. In case the link does not point to any page, no pingback will be seen.

However, you can view if the ping actually went through to the blog by viewing blog reactions which i believe can be done on Technorati with your blog claimed.

So, eventually, you should remove them if they are pinging to a spamming website.

Christina · #4 (**permalink**) 10-16-09, 14:31

IMO, pingbacks are useful when they are not pure spam. But If you have too many pingbacks and comments it does not looks good to have them mixed.

Johan · #5 (**permalink**) 10-16-09, 16:23

The pingbacks that come from the blogs who run on auto-pilot and they are managed by the people who always like to rank and profit from others efforts. Deleting them or not allowing pingbacks and trackbacks when you write an genuine post.

Even if they are "rel=nofollowed", they will do much more harm than any good, as in that way you are inactively linking to bad neighborhood.