Comments on: Pingbacks can be a fantastic source of traffic

By: izulman

izulman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:52:09 +0000

Now I know what pingback is. haha. thanks!
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By: Trevor Weir

Trevor Weir — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:27:43 +0000

After article publishing, I get an awful lot of pingbacks. This morning about 54 already.

I have two comments to make here, the first is kind of a warning.

Someone has created a program to auto comment in blogs and make it appear as if its a pingback. I didn't detect this at first but being the curious timewaster that I am, i have been clicking on them all lately just to see where they go and what that person is trying to really say ( ergo increased traffic for someone ) and what I found is that some of these false dummies appear to go back in a circular pattern that eventually leads right back to my blog and nothing valuable said anywhere at all on the way back to my blog.

Thats just one variant of the two that I found. The other just came from a garbage site that was pinging literally everyone – as if it had gotten itself on the pingoat or pingomatic list somehow.

Anyway, the real comment I was going to make was that initially I didn't accept pingbacks cause I thought that all these darn reciprocal links were going to cause a problem with Google. In theory, if you have a certain percentage that are reciprocal they do, but in theory Google must change their algorithm again… because someone said the other day that nearly 1% of the websites on the internet are wordpress based. I suspect this is true but can't confirm it.

However, if 1% of the websites are pinging each other constantly and creating reciprocal links — ha ha Google must and will accomodate. Someone should ask Matt C about this.

In the future I am sure that drupal and other blogs will end up doing the same if they aren't already, so I think that reciprocity is back in style — you heard it hear first ha ha.

Da marketing guy

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How to Increase Link Popularity Part 3 by DylanKingsberry.com — Tue, 29 May 2007 04:41:50 +0000

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By: richard

richard — Tue, 29 May 2007 01:24:08 +0000

I agree, it's good to link to relevant blogs. I think Google also give higher search engine ranking if you have good, relevant external links

By: Carlie

Carlie — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:42:55 +0000

I agree with this post whole heartedly. Last week I wrote about another article and the amount of users visiting my blog increased by about 40% as well. It's a great idea, but I only do it if the story is relevant to my blog.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 28 May 2007 21:31:46 +0000

some blogs do not add pingbacks to their comments. If this blog definately does then perhaps they are moderating all pingbacks/comments etc before posting. Do they use wordpress? (different scripts work in different ways with regards to comment and trackback moderation)

By: Tay

Tay — Mon, 28 May 2007 21:03:15 +0000

Hey Kevin, sorry for the second comment on this but I have a question…

Do trackbacks register automatically? I linked to a post today, a couple hours ago, and I went back to their original post that I'd linked to and it did not show my trackback.

I know they were accepting trackbacks as there was one from another site. How come mine doesn't show up?

I'm new to this thing but I'm working on it

~Tay