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Help me out please people understand what's going on here. Over the past 36 hours, a dozen or so pingbacks have appeared in the Recent Comments section of my Wordpress Dashboard. All are coming from different but in some ways the same sorts of sites. Here's one example:

http://fiberoasis.com/when-may…..n-savings/

The word "reside" in the 5th paragraph is linked to my post "Send a Cease & Desist Letter?", which has nothing to do with what this 'post' is supposedly about. It looks like three random words in the post above are linked to three random pages on the Web.

All of these weird pingbacks are from garbage sites like the one above. They're all different sites, but sure appear to me to be done by the same source.

What's the purpose of this? Is there anything here I should be concerned about or should I be pleased to have a link from anywhere?

Thanks

Thanks for the explanation, I got maybe 10 of these over the past week or so.

So basically free links? I assume they are super low quality, but it can never hurt, can it?

I got a bunch just like that this week.  I just mark them as spam and then send them on their way to spam hell.  As Andrea said, they're just looking for some webmasters that aren't paying any attention and approve those (or don't have an approval process at all) and they then get that recip link back from the post.  It's a spammy way of getting inlinks to your site.  Apparently, someone, somewhere is testing something, or sold some info-e-book touting it as a logically good way to increase rankings in Google.