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1:08 pm
May 31, 2013
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saverocity
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So I noticed my blog post was linked to from a site that looked kinda weird, not awful, but certainly not a great site, furthermore the site just linked to me without any real preamble, it was talking about a subject related to my post, but almost used my post as a definition of the words in question…
Is it possible that accepting linking into me can be harmful to my SEO? Wordpress asked me to approve it or not…
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1:58 pm
May 31, 2013
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Edward Antrobus
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Yes. With google's updates last year, they now work under the assumption that like links to like. So quality sites will only link to quality sites and spammy sites will link to spammy sites.
A ping isn't asking you if you want the link to exist. It does now whether you want it to or not. What WordPress is actually asking you is if you want to link back.
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3:41 pm
May 31, 2013
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I would turn off pingbacks completely. They don't really offer any value to your readers.
And yes, as Edward said, some links can be bad. Google offered the disavow tool to get rid of them, but just a few isn't a big deal.
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4:20 pm
May 31, 2013
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UberSteward
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saverocity said:
So I noticed my blog post was linked to from a site that looked kinda weird, not awful, but certainly not a great site, furthermore the site just linked to me without any real preamble, it was talking about a subject related to my post, but almost used my post as a definition of the words in question…
Is it possible that accepting linking into me can be harmful to my SEO? Wordpress asked me to approve it or not…
If I may add to this question, does nofollow play apart in protecting you from something like this. I'm slowly getting decent amount of comments on my blog and I wonder if nofollow is actually helping or not helping.
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2:34 am
June 2, 2013
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jonrhodesuk
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UberSteward said:
If I may add to this question, does nofollow play apart in protecting you from something like this. I'm slowly getting decent amount of comments on my blog and I wonder if nofollow is actually helping or not helping.
Yeh nofollow will help. Because nofollow doesn't pass on SEO benefits, spammers will be less interested. Quality commentors know that the best tactic is to add some great insight into their comments and rely on gaining some direct traffic. Spammers will write any old rubbish hoping for a link to rank higher.
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