Comments on: Do You Approve The Wrong Pingbacks?

By: Mark Fabian, Jr

Mark Fabian, Jr — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:59:11 +0000

Thanks for the post Nick. And great comments guys. this was very helpful. just wanted to let you know!

Mark

By: Saqib Khan

Saqib Khan — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:04:34 +0000

Hi Nick. How are you?

I have a quick question. I have received over 700 pingbacks over the past 2 days to my wordpress blog mainly from article directories. Should I approve them or delete them?

Also does approving a pingback improve my blog’s page rank and ranking in the search engines?

I look forward to reading your reply!

Kind regards
Saqib Khan

By: Scotty Smith

Scotty Smith — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:48:14 +0000

I personally don’t approve any form of pingback. Why? Because I like 1-way links

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:20:19 +0000

Hi Todd,
Thanks for reading and your questions.

If you accept and approve a pingback to your blog then you are linking to them and they are linking to you…

By: Todd Bobal

Todd Bobal — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:43:09 +0000

Hi Nick,

Great post. I do have a question though. If another blog picks up one of my posts or articles and I do not accept the ping…does this mean that I have a one way link from their site to mine?

And…if I do except the ping this means I am linking back to them?

I figure as long as its a decent site and they give me credit (a link) back to my site then all should be good!

Todd

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:17:04 +0000

Hi Sally,
Thanks for your comment and sharing your viewpoint regarding approving and not approving pingbacks on your blog…

Take Care!
Nick

By: Sally Dillon

Sally Dillon — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:58:21 +0000

Thx for shedding some light Nick! Like Kirk, I was afraid of not getting credit if I didn’t approve the pingbacks from blogs that linked to my blogsites. I didn’t like how the pingbacks looked in the comments area so I deleted them and I didn’t really understand what they were or how they worked. I see that the links are still there on those blogs so I would have to concur with you – that you don’t lose credit for the link if you delete it. I like allowing pingbacks, though, so that I know when I’m being linked to. I just usually don’t approve them. I never spam them – just delete. If I ever got a pingback that looked like it was interactive or something, I think I would approve it.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:22:33 +0000

Hi Kirk,
Thanks for reading and the comment…I think so, I often don’t approve a pingback if it is coming from a spammy site or “splog”…spam blog…

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:39:58 +0000

If I do not approve the pingbacks, do I still get “credit” for the link? I don’t really want them to appear on the blog posts but if I am getting links, I don’t want to delete them. Obviously, I’m new and not sure what I am doing yet.
Thanks

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:49:28 +0000

Hi Ryan,
Only approving good sources of pingbacks makes total sense…

By: Ryan Pham

Ryan Pham — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:32:50 +0000

I normally disable pingbacks, wonder if anyone else does it by default?

Only time i approve would be if they are from good sources else its delete