pingback what the bleep is that!
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just received an email telling me i’d received a pingback
>>A new pingback on the post #2 “ABOUT BIZLINKS” is waiting for your approval
Pingback excerpt:
[…] ABOUT BIZLINKS […]i went to check it out and there is no url from whom it came but only url a post on my blog
any one?
pls explain what a pingback is and what one needs to do with them?!
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Did you reference or link to another post of your own? A pingback is just a notification that somewhere out there on a blog (even your own) there is a post that links to your entry where you recieved the pingback (also known as a trackback).
Trent
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thanx trent
it’s quite possible i did such a thing with out knowing it!
why would one use it?
can you give an example pls!
from the time of the ping and the email being sent is it pretty instant?
it’s a tad creepyby the way i see you have a post on facebook on yr site
i was going to leave you a comment but you have a form thta needs filling to do so
it’s quicker to write it here!
bbc world TV have a horizon program – that’s more than likely an old one – called facehooded – its being shown over the week end so you could still catch it
interesting take on face book.
an overpriced company – a bubble ready to burst and that when the members get to know about thier personal details being accessible to the general public and that it is an ad based site it’s possible that members will move to the new social network round the corner!
also spoke of fraudsters – nicking peoples identities on it -
You may not want someone to link to your blog post. Or at the very least know who and in what context they are doing so. The pingback is an alert that this has happened.
After all, if they link to you and insult you for your opinion on something, you probably want to know about it. -
But flamewars are GREAT for hits.
I generally find that the sad majority of pingbacks are spam sites. Always check them out and kill the pingback (list it as Spam) if it is in fact a spam site.
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I got a pingback when I referred to a previous post, also. It appeared as a comment on the post and looked like I spammed myself. I deleted it.
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You can link to your own previous post and avoid the pingback by using a relative URI and not an absolute URI.
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thanx for all info boys and girls
raincoaster
>>Always check them out and kill the pingback (list it as Spam) if it is in fact a spam site.can you list a few things that makes a comment spam/a fake – besides the obvious!
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a message that has nothing to do with the post?
weird urls amongst the comment?are the spammers using technology to spam our blogs ie looking out for the tags or categories we use for our posts?
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Thanks for the info. I received two of these recently and wasn’t sure what to do with them.
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