Thread: Trackbacks and Pingbacks

"Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page."

Since I started my blog, I've had this disabled, because I always thought that these looks pretty unsightly - comments would randomly appear that had things like [...words that someone wrote here...] with a big ugly title of 'PINGBACK' or 'TRACKBACK' or something. I also noticed that I would get some spam from having this enabled. Anyway, I figured it would be easiest to just keep them disabled and that was that.

However, I want to make sure that I'm not missing out on anything by having this disabled - so, advice would be appreciated.

Well, you can leave them enabled so you see them in the back end of your blog (if you use a CMS) and then just not approve them. I like to see who/what links to the article. Since you've had issues with scrapers, this could help there too.

Originally Posted by javanx3d

Well, you can leave them enabled so you see them in the back end of your blog (if you use a CMS) and then just not approve them. I like to see who/what links to the article. Since you've had issues with scrapers, this could help there too.

simmilar to what is said by javanx3d

i keep them enabled and if i find some good site linknig to me i happly accept it and if spammy site linking back i keep them in trash.