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  secondchancetolive · Member · Jul 2, 2007 at 7:40 pm

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  I have a quick question. I am not sure whether to approve or deny or what to do with this situation. When I publish a post and have as one of my tags Virginia Tech, the University includes me on there website as a blog to read. I will paste that below. I receive the below as a comment and I do not know what to do with the comment because it is not really a comment. Any suggestions on the action I should take: approve, delete, ect.?

  University Update – Virginia Tech – Conditions for Healing | universityupdate.com/ACC/Virginia_Tech/3544669.aspx | IP: 72.82.53.13

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  atthe404 · Member · Jul 2, 2007 at 7:44 pm

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  With out a doubt this is trackback spam. You can quite happily delete it.

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  drmike · Member · Jul 2, 2007 at 7:47 pm

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  It’s what’s known as a trackback. It just shows up on your blog showing your visitors that another site linked to your article. In this case it’s cool and I would approve it if it’s legit. Spammers use trackbacks though and you should always check to see if the other site is actually talking about your article in some way. Sometimes it can be a scraper who has just copied the content of your post and is trying to get you to give them a link back to your site.

  Hope this helps,
  -drmike

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Jul 2, 2007 at 8:06 pm

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  Hi Dr. Mike,
  When I click on the Virginia Tech’s link in the track back it takes me to their site with a University Update. Do you think in general I should delete track backs that show up in my comment section? Would that be the safest procedure to follow Dr. Mike?

  Thank you for your time and kindness.

  Craig

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 2, 2007 at 8:18 pm

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  I don’t delete them unless they’re from spam blogs. That blog has advertising, but I wouldn’t call it a spam blog, so I’d leave it.

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Jul 2, 2007 at 8:24 pm

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  Hi Raincoaster. Does that mean that I should accept that track back as a comment, and click approve?

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  drmike · Member · Jul 2, 2007 at 9:31 pm

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  I’m going to change my mind. I’m going to call it a scraper that’s just picking up tags from the net. When you look at the main site, there’s nothing there but adsense adverts with lots of subjects, only a few of them related.

  universityupdate.com

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  timethief · Member · Jul 2, 2007 at 10:18 pm

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  I got trackbacks from them too a couple of weeks ago and I spammed every one of them.

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Jul 3, 2007 at 2:56 am

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  Thank you very much Dr. Mike and time thief. Much appreciated. Craig

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  drmike · Member · Jul 3, 2007 at 12:49 pm

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  Not a problem. :)

  At least they weren’t taking the entire post.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 3, 2007 at 3:06 pm

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  Your welcome Craig. :)

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Jul 4, 2007 at 4:23 am

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  Dr. Mike,
  Actually they did and linked back to my site. These are some of the links to my posts. http://www.universityupdate.com/ACC/Virginia_Tech/3441178.aspx
  http://www.universityupdate.com/ACC/Virginia_Tech/3443073.aspx
  http://www.universityupdate.com/ACC/Virginia_Tech/3461932.aspx
  http://www.universityupdate.com/ACC/Virginia_Tech/3490870.aspx
  http://www.universityupdate.com/ACC/Virginia_Tech/3544669.aspx

  Do you have any thoughts how I need to proceed?

  Thanks. Craig

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 4, 2007 at 6:18 am

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  If you’ve deleted the trackbacks, you don’t need to do anything else. As we’ve discussed before, you cannot prevent other people from linking to you. You cannot control other people’s webspace. But those links DO help your standings in Google and Technorati, so as long as you delete the trackback comments, you should be fine. They cannot hurt you or your site in any way whatsoever.

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  secondchancetolive · Member · Jul 4, 2007 at 4:27 pm

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  Thank you so very much Raincoaster. Much appreciated. Happy 4th of July to you and all of the staff and volunteers at Word Press. God bless you all!!!