Pings & Pingbacks
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Hi Anyone,
Can you tell me what ping is? And what is pingback? How do I do it? Someone “pinged” my very new blog, but I’m not sure what that means, or if I’m supposed to do anything about it…?
Thank you!
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Hi
loosely, Pinging is one web service telling another that something is happening.most common example here at wordpress.com:
one person has a blog post that has a either a quote or link to your blog. either manually or automatically sends a “pingback” to your blog.check this support page out
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pingbacks/
if a pingback has shown up on in your comment moderation queue, than some blogger either reference your blog or link in someway or it was generated by the bloggers “related post”.
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Sigh.
After you understand the pingback, understand the term “backlink”.A backlink is used specifically between blogs and websites when one is citing another URL (the website location) or quoting.
Although a pingback is actually a technical means of backlinking:
As far as I know, at wordpress.Com, a backlink is the same as a pingback.I mention this because the word “trackback” is used on the post editor page.
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