PingBack Spam | Wordpress Spam Karma Plugin Tweaks to Block Spammers
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Over the past few months the amount of pingback spam I’ve been getting has begun to get out of hand.
What are PingBacks?
A PingBack occurs when another Wordpress site links to a post on your own wordpress site. A quote from the post that linked to your site is published as a comment on your site with a link back to the site that linked to you.
(Note: I’ve stated Wordpress as that is the most common platform that uses pingbacks, but other blogging platforms use it too.)
Confused - I’ll try and explain again:
- Post on Site A Links to a Post on Site B
- Site B’s post displays a quote from the Post on Site A (usually in the form of a comment at the end of the post).
Benefits: Site A gets a free link back and Site B shows the other sites discussing the post.
I Like PingBacks…
You can turn PingBacks off in Wordpress but I like to leave PingBacks switched on because:
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