Weird pingback action

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  rebekahstudio · Member · Jul 9, 2011 at 10:36 am

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  Rarely have I received pingbacks, except my own. In the past week I received one from an inactive blog, and one from a 2008 blog. In my opinion, neither had much relevance to what I posted. Do you know if this is related to the automatically generated similar posts by WordPress at the end of my blog post that I never see (but other viewers do see)? Is this something of concern, or should I just continue to ignore an delete them? How does this happen? Thank you.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  rebekahstudio · Member · Jul 9, 2011 at 5:06 pm

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  Anyone? I know what a pingback is. Is this spam and how did it get in?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2011 at 5:12 pm

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  Pingbacks occur when another site links to content in your site.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pingbacks/
  If you do not find any value in the site that’s linking to yours, and/or is it appears to be a splog (spam blog) or has links to bad neighborhood sites, and/or if you do not believe that posting the pingback will result in sending your readers to another high quality site then delete the pingback.

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  rebekahstudio · Member · Jul 9, 2011 at 5:22 pm

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  Thank you. I did read your articles.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2011 at 9:33 pm

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  I operate of the when in doubt about any pingback or comment don’t approve it principal. You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog. :)

  P.S. Your blog is looking good and I love your landscape paintings. :)

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  rebekahstudio · Member · Jul 10, 2011 at 1:16 am

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  Now I know what to do.
  Thanks for the compliment about my blog, TT.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 10, 2011 at 1:17 am

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  You’re welcome. Your paintings are fabulous. :)