Pingbacks !
Posted on | January 6, 2010 | No Comments
When writing a new post in Wordpress, you will have an option in the “Discussion” box labeled “Allow Pings”. This means that when you link to another blogger’s post, they will automatically be notified, which is good for business! Alternatively, when another blog links to your post, you will receive an automatic notification by means of a pingback. It will be shown as a comment on the post. I have never run across a reason to disable
this feature. The reason why is because I will be more prone to link to your article if I know you allow pingbacks because when I do, it will give me a link in the comments ofyour post for all your visitors to see (especially if you remove the “nofollow” attribute, which I will explain in just a minute). Another benefit is that when you automatically notify others when and if you link to their posts, they will come visit your blog to see
what you had to say about it. You can try this using SiteFever.com. Pick any article of mine and link to it in any post on your blog. Within a few minutes, a comment will be added to my article linking to your site. Not only that, but the link will also show up as a blog reaction for you in Technorati, and sifting through blog reactions are a great way to increase traffic to your blog .
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