Trackback And Pingback Spamming
Link building is the most valuable part of search engine optimization (SEO). Therefore, many webmasters uses almost any possible way to gather as much as backlinks possible. One of the most common used techniques to get backlinks from related blog post is by using pingback and trackback. In most cases, it is also called as “link bait” technique. Rise in autoblog numbers increases the trackback and pingback type of link baits used vastly. Almost all my new blog post will receive at least 20 trackbacks and pingbacks within few hours of posting. Most of the sites that give link are autoblogs that fetches content using RSS from other blogs. It is used to get more contents published in their blog in order to get more organic traffic.
What most autoblog webmaster doesn’t realize is the content duplicate issue. Google has its own way to detect duplicate content and only that origin content will get listed. Other duplicate content will be removed from Google search result listings. However, there are some duplicate posts still lurking in search results and waiting to get penalized. This can be considered as a quick way to increase popularity for a domain name. Although, it could lead to penalty; it is still a shortcut to gain quick popularity. Plus, some sites even hide the link to your page. Surely, some “black hat” SEO method involved there. Don’t fall for this trick anymore.
If you receive any trackback or pingback, make sure to check whether it is genuine. Giving link to a link to a bad neighborhood site can get you penalty from Google as well. Search engine loves blogs that moderate comments and trackbacks. A good site will monitor its entire outgoing links, thus it will get reputation and ranking in search engine results position (SERP). I’m not a big fan of link exchange. But, giving trackback and pingback is similar to link exchange. If someone link to your blog post, you will receive a trackback or pingback request. If you publish it, you are giving a link back to that particular site. Google also doesn’t like excessive link exchanges and may lead to penalty as well. Are you still publishing trackback and pingback? Think again.
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January 7th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I think this auto blog can use for flipping domain.
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Atniz Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Usually, domain owners use this method to gain high pagerank in shortest period of time.
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January 7th, 2010 at 9:32 am
Do you think re-phrasing is not enough to hide the duplicity?
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Atniz Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 11:57 am
It depends on the % of rephrasing level. Usually, they can detect if reconstruction done poorly.
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January 7th, 2010 at 10:02 am
I give backlink to internal site pingbacks, and to friends’ sites. In all other cases, it depends on the kind of trackback: if it’s a genuine backlink, I do; if it’s duplicated content, then I remove it.
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Atniz Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
It’s good to monitor your trackbacks and pingback.
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January 7th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
first time here. visiting from imcurtain…
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Atniz Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 4:58 am
Good to see you from Imcurtain, Jason.
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January 7th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Great post. Black hat SEO’s will be penalized for a month. whether it is blog or website no matter.
For long term retention of online visits one should give what the user what and not for SEO rest will be taken care by the SE’s
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Atniz Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 4:58 am
Penalty duration is only measure by Google. Some penalties are not removed for more than a year. It is not under our control.
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January 7th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Thanks.. I’ll monitor my outlinks more seriously from now on. I don’t want to be linked with any neighborhood sites and get its negative impact
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Atniz Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 4:59 am
Great! I’m sure you site will stay healthy if you do so.
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January 8th, 2010 at 12:33 am
thanks daily i recieve hundreds of spam message on my website.. Finally i have knowledge how to protect my site for spamming.
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Atniz Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Great! You will just add more quality to your blog if you moderate it well.
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kyle Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 4:44 am
excuse me, what is the algorithm in exchanging a link?
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Atniz Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 9:55 am
“You link me I link you type” of links are called as exchanging links.
You can check this at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356
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January 8th, 2010 at 8:19 am
yah thanks for the tips Atniz can we exchange links? this is my site http://www.renantech.com with PR3. If it is ok for you can email me on renanorola@yahoo.com for the link details..
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Atniz Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I’m really sorry that I don’t do any link exchanges.
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January 8th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Thanks! Some tags I use (usually medical terms) often bring trackback from outside. I thought they were harmless though, since they’re nofollow links. I’ll be more careful next time.
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Atniz Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Either it is nofollow or dofollow, outgoing links to bad neighborhood sites hurt our site.
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January 10th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Google said that they have the way of dealing it. However, they still wants website owners to manage their sites personally. That’s the reason why moderation should always be in consider, in comments and trackbacks like this.
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Atniz Reply:
January 10th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
It is better to do in-house moderation instead expecting Google to understand it. Good moderated site shows high quality to many.
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January 10th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
I have already received that too, and i handle it with self moderation, i change their links but keep the comments.
for example like in this article:
ninoholic.com/cheapest-6-dollar-vps-hosting-with-two-web-server-options-feature.html
their link is not clickable anymore, but i still got comments count, dont know this is good or not
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Atniz Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 9:27 am
If it is not clickable, it is not counted as outbound link. So, I guess you are safe, and it is adding more keywords in your post. Nice idea.
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January 10th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
I have always been paranoid about google because of the duplicate content issue , Its a nightmare to every SEO guy or girl =p out there.
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Atniz Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Duplicate contents will not get any credit and even if they get, it is temporary. So, don’t worry about it.
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January 11th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
I get that many ping pack spammers to my blogs that I just click delete all every morning, shouldn’t really but its so hard trawling through them.
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Atniz Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 11:13 am
I understand how you feel. I am doing the same thing too. Almost 30-50 spam comments daily and most of it from unique IP. So, it is hard to control with IP-Ban plugin.
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January 11th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
I get about 2 per post but I never knew its for spamming purposes , I usually get trackbacks from wpmash and toppy, is that considered spam or can I approve?
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Atniz Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 11:21 am
You need to check this sites. Is it automated site. I prefer to give the backlink if the site is genuine and the writer refers our site in the blogpost.
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January 12th, 2010 at 3:12 am
@Ruben
Spam or you can erase the duplicate one
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Atniz Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 11:38 am
It is easy but for large number, it is annoying.
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January 13th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
yup, you can erase the malicious comment
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January 14th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Yes, it is easy. I don’t know why this comment get so famous.
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January 16th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
I was spending so much time deleting SPAM that at one point, I had to disable comments. Annoying and time consuming to say the least.
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Atniz Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 5:10 am
I did the same when this blog was dofollow. But, the spam comments still pouring in. I guess a good captcha will save the day.
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