If you’ve had a wordpress blog set-up and running for a while, you will probably have trackbacks mixed in with the real comments especially those posts and pages which have linked often by you and others. And also nofollow links are also being counted as backlinks there no use keeping 2 way links.
Wordpress Trackback
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# Disable Self-Pings Trackbacks on Wordpress
Some people really like that WordPress sends pings from your own site to your own site when you write posts. It gives them a trail of related posts. Some people do not like this behavior, Since it clutter their comments. This plugin disables intra-blog pinging & trackbacks.
> Plugin Link : no-self-ping | Plugin Search : “No Self Ping“
Disable Trackbacks Completely on Wordpress
Go to Dashboard > Settings > Discussion
Turn Off “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)”
# Delete All Present Trackbacks
Go to Dashboard > Comments
Search for “[...]” and it will show all the trackbacks on your blog… (you can set your screen options to show 200+ comments per page)
Select All and Bulk Delete (Send to Trash). Meanwhile send to trash is new function which is available in wordpress 2.9+.
Do you think disabling trackback and pingbacks is good idea, or should we allow track back to show our love towards people who linked to our blog posts?
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This is actually something I want to have in a standard version of Wordpress. A majority must be against showing their own trackbacks.
Initially I was not aware of how to get rid of that, the day I got to know about no sefl ping plugin, even i wished the same. As showing trackback from your own blog does not make sense.
My question is, if we disable and remove the trackbacks and pingbacks will it help our blogs in the long term with pagerank etc or is it just mainly as a form of de-cluttering the blog?
Karen if we are showing trackback from the similar websites it won’t effect page rank, but these days most of the trackbacks are sent via auto feeds or twitter harvester, which doesn’t deserve a link back. In another word, accpeting trackback is showing your appreciation to people who linked to your article. Another side of it is, it will drive traffic away from you, as showing trackback acts as an exit point.
Getting back to your question, if you use some theme which shows trackback and excerpt as seperate entity, this will not make it look cluttered.
but the final decision is yours, do you want to show trackback or not.
Harsh is right…..
But I think, Suppose you have a high page rank “post” say “pr-3″ . Now it might be there a Lot of Trackbacks to this post from other posts on your blog. Its true the page rank juice will be passed to the trackbacked posts pages. But why waste it like that, esp when you can edit that post and target some keywords from inside the post to some other post you want to rank high on serp.
Believe me this works…..
I always show trackbacks and pingbacks. If fellow bloggers take the time to link to my content, the least I can do is allow their trackback to appear.
It’s called being social and engaging with other bloggers.
You are right about that… thats way tracksbacks are meant for… but not all trackbacks are worthy…. and there is no use of self (intra-blog) trackbacks. What do you think ?
Self trackbacks can lead to additional pageviews and keeping the visitor on your site longer. This could lead to that visitor being a repeat visitor.
Agreed…
You mean like Related Posts…
But one thing is for Sure..
Trackbacks quite are helpful when a “Blogger” is Reading someone else’s blogs, helps to know the recent links backs and what’s currently hot there.
I will agree with FAqPal and even I think that self ping will help in increasing page views when we considering ping back as the point of exit from the site. .
i also like to show the trackbacks and pingbacks….anything wrong with that??
My Suggestion is to accept trackbacks but never show them on your post. Trackbacks are only useful to the blog author if he wants to check where he is getting links but for a average blog reader or commenter, trackbacks are not very worthy and just waste space. So you should hide them on the post page but keep them enabled.
what’s wrong with Trackbacks and Pings?
Nothing Actually…..
This is a guide for people like me who wants to disable new ones and delete the previous one…
coz I have seen popular blogs with a huge trackbacks list… looks quite clumsy if not themed properly.
I think I should have added “How to” to this post’s tile…
I just think it shows appreciation to fellow bloggers for helping to promote your posts.
To each his own, but I would list them seperately at the end of the comments.
This plugin is helpful when you do not want to show appreciation to yourself
Consider this:
When I write in my ‘post A’ that my previous ‘post X’ (hyperlinked) got PR3, Post X automatically gets a ping from post A which will make Post X leak its PR towards post A. Now presuming that I am trying to build a strong reader base & PR for post X, then, this will come in my way badly as whenever I am refering to post X, I am leaking its PR.
This plugin will be highly useful in such scenarios.
Finally, someone who responded what I meant to imply… here.
If fact I have seen this on my blog… where high page rank posts giving away PR juices to posts I didn’t even Link to… later I found out there were trackbacks.
I’ve always used a no self ping plugin on my blogs for those exact reasons. I don’t need my site referring to itself. If I want to create additional readership I will use other methods.
One of the best Ive found lately is the linkwithin plugin widget that says you might enjoy “post 1,2,3,4,or5″ and displays an image as well. I see in my analytics people are clicking all over that.
Linkwithin is an excellent way to show Related posts on your blog .. It has been found to improve bounce rate significantly….
You can read SML’s review on Linkwithin Here.
Will do. I notice a ton of page views referred by the linkwithin plugin. I am sort of wondering if that reduces comments though because of where it appears.
I don’t think it affects comments in anyways……..
Although it depends entirely on the reader since “Linkwithin” serves attractive “thumbnail+postname”.
Plus think Linkwithin puts less load on your Hosting server.. than any related posts wp plugin… learnt it recently becoz of my blog’s downntimes… but thats a different topic..
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Good info i am using this plugin now and it is really good as we all know self ping is not important.
Thank You
No Ping is a very useful as you are doing anchor text optimization..
Am I missing something? Since when did nofollow links count as backlinks?