Wordpress: Pingback Spam From Spammers and You!

Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 7:40 pm. 1 comment
Posted in Techies Only.

I don’t really care much about pingbacks and trackbacks but I guess they have their usefullness to the blogging community. Its not just bloggers who use it, but spammers as well. They use this easy oppurtunity to get their site listed because Akismet won’t moderate pingbacks. You’ll need a seperate plugin just to block them completely. I do recommend using two plugins to combat two different types of pingback spam which we’ll go into detail below

Blocking Pingback Spam from Spammers!

The plugin I suggest using is Trackback Validation Plugin. Its pretty good and has been filling in the holes that even Spam Karma left behind. It places all pingbacks on moderation allowing you to not have to wake up each day worrying about how someone found your post interesting but they didn’t agree with parts of it.. ya right.. You can try out the Trackback Validation Plugin.

Examples of Pingback Spam include:

Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts…..

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view…

May I use some of your content on my website?…

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin…..

Blocking Pingback Spam from You!

I am one of the bloggers who insist that pingbacks should only come from external sources, not your own blog. If you want to show related posts, you should instead use the related plugin. This isn’t really the point though, pingback spam from your own blog is irritating only because it automatically adds it self to the comments even when you just wanted to link to a previous entry. Since there is no internal option to disable yourself from sending pingbacks, you can instead use the no self pinback plugin.

So I hope you try those out because quite frankly I’m tired of this whole pingback mess.