Pretty much every blogger knows what a comment is, but when it comes to defining what a "pingback" is, even the online blogging community is a little less certain of the meaning. So what is a pingback? Are pingbacks good for your website SEO?
Wordpress Blogging & What a Pingback Is
Pingbacks are specific to the Wordpress community, so if your blog is not hosted on Wordpress I guess you can be excused for not knowing what a pingback is. Similar to comments, pingbacks are a way in which one blogger can link his or her blog to another blog. If you're talking about pingbacks and another blogger is talking about trackbacks, it makes sense that you'd want to link to that blog, right? That's why Wordpress created the pingback, see!
How do I pingback to another blog?
So pingbacks sound pretty cool, right? How do you pingback? Lucky for you, pingbacks are created automatically whenever you link to another Wordpress blog in your blog. You might be pingbacking already without even realizing it--as long as the blogs you're linking to have pingbacks enabled, that is. You can Follow these steps to enable pingbacks on your Wordpress blog, but you should keep reading to make sure you really want to do that first.
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Reciprocal Linking: Pingbacks and SEO
As most successful bloggers and SEOs already know, getting more links to your blog is one of the best ways to get more traffic and/or money from your website. Using Wordpress pingbacks is a good way to get more links to your blog. If you link to another WP website, you automatically get a reciprocal link back from them, usually on the sidebar or bottom of their page. Pingbacking is kind of like a game of ping pong: you pass an easy link out there, and it will get volleyed right back to you. Sounds like a pretty good deal, right?
We've established that pingbacks are a good way for similar Wordpress blogs to get reciprocal links and form a blogging community, but does this mean you should enable pingbacking and have all of your pingbacks listed on the sidebar of your Wordpress blog? Is pingbacking really a good SEO and internet marketing tactic?
While pingbacks sound good in theory, spammers have found a way to abuse the pingback, like so many things in SEO. If you have automatic pingbacks set up on your blog, any site that links to you will get a link back to their site right on your blog post, no matter how spammy. These kind of low quality pingbacks could eventually hurt the integrity and trust of your own blog in Google's and other search engines eyes, not help it. Simply put, pingbacks could have the opposite effect that you want them to have, so proceed pingbacking with caution!
Should You Enable Pingbacks?
So should you allow pingbacks on your Wordpress blog? It depends. While the pingback is an easy way to get links and build up your link profile, you could trash your website if you're not careful. For professional bloggers, the best way to use pingbacks is to monitor them often. If you see things getting out of control, you probably want to disable automatic pingbacking and only display authentic pingbacks on your blog.
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This post cleared many ambiguities i had regarding pingbacks. I have a little question. Can you please differentiate between the pingbacks and trackbacks?
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Thanks for explaining this, Dave. I got a pingback when I was writing a post earlier today. It looked like it was coming from my own blog, and thought it was something I did wrong, so I deleted it. Turns out, the pingback was created when I linked to an earlier blog post I wrote! Heh, silly me. (:
– C. out.
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Thank you for this interesting topic,Dave.
I’ve read various versions about how the pingbacks reflect the SEO and and I can’t agree more that this, as many other things should be always used with a caution.
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I got a pingback in my wordpress blog and this eventually brought me here. Thanks for sharing this piece of information. This article was of great use for me to understand about pingback.
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Many new bloggers tend to get more and more backlinks quickly that is why they do it. But, not good for long run.
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Thank you very much. This is a very useful article on Pingback. I usually get Pinback in the comments section when connecting me with my own posts. By reading your articles and comments about different personalities, Now Iam already know him. Thanks again.
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Hey,
What is the difference between a trackback and a pingback? I’ve seen it asked below but was wondering if you could elaborate on it, please.
Thanks,
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Pingbacks don’t seem to work on my blog. Any ideas on an alternative?
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hey every one, can you tell me what is the difference between pinback and trackback.????????
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Thank you Dave. This is very useful. What is the difference between pinbacks and trackback?
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– Trackbacks are manual whereas Pingbacks are automatic (different communication technology).
– Pingbacks do not send any content. In trackbacks an excerpt of the content is sent.
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Thanks Dave very good overview of pingbacks. They can be dangerous as you allude to because just like comment spam a lot of people use them for pingback spam and this is especially a concern if the pingbacks are from spammy sites.
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Thank you so much for the insight.
I was really in a need for this news about pingbacks.
Can you please trackbacks as well?
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Dave, this is really good article, I use this technique to link my post internally, this is really easy and WP provides this facility.
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Thanks for the explanation, I didn’t know what to make of the notification I received. i also don’t know how to setup or disable automatic pingbacks as advised
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ping backs to some extent is fairly acceptable but if you keep on doing this will give adverse effects on your blog
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How can I disable automatic pingbacks on my blog? Can you give me advice?
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Thank you very much. It is very fruitful article on Pingback. I usually get Pinback on comment section when I link withing my own post. By reading your article and comments of different personalities, Now Iam familiar about it. Thanks again.
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I i have baklinks on other websites(wordpress), shoud i ping those sites ?
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what about pingbacks within your own website?
I typically link to previous posts on my travel blog and WP asks me whether I should approve Pingback or not. I thought including links to your own blog within your comments section hurts SEO, so I mostly trash them.
Is this a bad idea? or should I start approving my own pingbacks in order to increase traffic/reader retention? greatly appreciate your response!
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You don’t need to approve it unless you want to to show on your blog’s comments.
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Thanks for your comment, Sarah! Rereading the article, I can see what you mean about the conclusion being a little rushed. I hope I do publish another article about pingbacks in the future, but if you want to read more SEO articles authored by me you should check out my Google+ profile! Thanks again!
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This is a good summary of pingbacks. It explains them and their advantages/disadvantages well. I must admit, the ending seemed ‘cut short’ to me though. I expected it to t continue and provide further details and advice. I hope that you’ll do so another article, I would certainly read it if you did.