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6:44 am
June 11, 2013
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Matt – Mom and Dad Money
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I've been getting plenty of spammy pingbacks recently that I've been marking as spam. This morning I have two more that look spammy, but they say they're from news.google.com. When I click through the link, that's exactly where it brings me, but I can't see any mention of my site anywhere. Does anyone know what this is? My guess is it's just a deceptive way for the typical spammers to try and get a link, but wanted to make sure.
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7:28 am
June 11, 2013
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WellKeptWallet
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My understanding is that this is Google trying to figure out what websites don't have comments being moderated. When a website doesn't moderate comments, they tend to fill up with spammy links and Google does not like that.
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5:17 pm
June 11, 2013
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Anton Ivanov
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If the pingpags are flooding your comments, you may want to consider removing them. That's exactly what I have done using the Hide Trackbacks plugin. You still see them in your dashboard and get an email about them, but they don't appear on your website.
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6:35 pm
June 11, 2013
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Matt – Mom and Dad Money
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Thanks for the feedback guys. It's not causing any problems for me. I'm just deleting them. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't throwing away a good link from google without knowing it.
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9:34 pm
June 11, 2013
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sooverthis
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There's a great plugin called Simple Trackback Validation with Topsy Blocker (longest name ever) that will detect spam trackbacks/pingbacks and either delete them, flag for moderation, or move to spam. It's very accurate and will get rid of all that stuff with no action on your part. I usually set it to send the items to the trash, then I review the trash before emptying just to be sure there weren't any false positives. So far I've never had it delete one it shouldn't have.
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11:42 am
June 12, 2013
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Matt – Mom and Dad Money
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Thanks Andrea! That plugin is installed and ready to go.
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11:11 am
June 17, 2013
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Pauline
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I use akismet and it gets rid of 99% of spammy trackbacks. You just have to check your spam folder to empty once in a while.
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7:44 am
June 18, 2013
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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My philosophy is that pings and trackbacks offer zero value to my readers, so I turned them off.
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