Yakezie.com - Topic: Opinion: Post Pings as Comments? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 Betty Kincaid on Opinion: Post Pings as Comments? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14726 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14726 We post all our trackbacks and pingbacks under comments.

2 thoughts on your particular issue:

1) If the post in question got lots of link love doesn't that not only fit, but in fact epitomzie, the criteria of "most popular"?

2) We just started using the "Yet another related posts plug-in" on our Wordpress blog.  It allows for mega-customization and might work for you too.

Along the same lines, is anyone using the "AfterRead" plug-in?

]]> Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:41:33 +0000 Sustainable PF on Opinion: Post Pings as Comments? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14472 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14472 I've left them up for similar reasons, but today I noticed something that makes them a little problematic.

I like to have a Popular Posts widget active.  At first I used it to show the most viewed posts, but this only showed the posts as of when I installed the plugin.  So I switched it to show the most popular posts as the most comments.  One of our latest posts: How To Stop Smoking Cigarettes got a lot of link love so it is showing much higher in the popular posts than it should, given the "real" comments it received.

I would manually make a popular posts lists using our Google Analytics, but we changed our URL structure at the end of December so figuring out which older post views and newer post views is pretty rough to do ...

]]> Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:25:23 +0000 Budgeting in the Fun Stuff on Opinion: Post Pings as Comments? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14470 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14470 I also leave them up so that people get a little thank you for linking to me.  :-)

]]> Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:04:24 +0000 Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Opinion: Post Pings as Comments? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14463 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14463 I post them simply because it provides a link to someone who has linked to me. I'm not sure how many people will click through to the other sites, but I figured that it can't really hurt.

]]> Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:55:36 +0000 Sustainable PF on Opinion: Post Pings as Comments? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14462 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/opinion-post-pings-as-comments/#p14462 Hi folks,

Should I be posting pings as comments or is it taboo to do so?  (We have 69 posted from where we were linked to by other blogs)

Thanks!

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