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01.25.10

Is There Any Value In Trackbacks?

By Thomas McMahon

The idea of trackbacks and pingbacks are great. It's a way of getting notified when someone else posts about you on their blog. However, spammers have taken over and it makes you wonder if there is any value in trackbacks anymore.

The idea of trackbacks is fantastic, however it is to easy for spammers to abuse; and they know that. The system has been corrupt for a while and it makes a blogger think that it may be time to just disable them and forget about them.

What do you think?

Do you still see value in trackbacks and pingbacks? Or have you disabled them and let them die?

Yes, trackbacks/pingbacks are dead. Lets turn them off.

If you'd like to disable trackbacks on your WordPress blog, go into your blogs settings and then click ‘discussion' and un-check the box for ‘Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)'

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No, trackbacks/pingbacks are still alive, they just need to be monitored better.

If you'd like to keep trackbacks, but manage them better, check out one of these plugins:

• Moderate Trackbacks
• Simple Trackback Validation
• Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks
• Disable Trackbacks

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About the Author:
Thomas McMahon is a SEO Designer for TopRank Online Marketing in Minneapolis, MN. His specialities inlude technical optimization of existing web sites, creating search engine friendly web designs, and blog optimization. He has also created a number of blog marketing tools, WordPress plug-ins and FireFox add-ons.

Blog: http://bloggerdesign.com

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