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One of my readers, Asked:

Hi:
I’m a fellow student of Alex Jeffreys and heard you are the expert on links, etc.
Could you get back to me on the following?

What is a pingback?

Every time I post a new entry, I get one of these ping back comments.

Should I approve them or not?

It seems that my post is repeated on the site the ping comes
from even if I don’t approve the comment. I’d rather not approve them because
I think they clutter up the comment area, but I don’t know if not
approving them diminishes their results.

Thanks, Sandy

A PingBack, just means that someone just talked about your site.

WordPress explains it clearly:

For example, Yvonne writes an interesting article on her Web log. Kathleen reads Yvonne’s article and comments about it, linking back to Yvonne’s original post. Using pingback, Kathleen’s software can automatically notify Yvonne that her post has been linked to, and Yvonne’s software can then include this information on her site.

Most of the time, it’s a spam blog, scraper sites, or RSS scraper.
They post a snippet of your blog post in order to get Fresh content (SEO)
and cheap links from people, building NO Valve what-so-ever.
It’s normally grayhat black-hat blog trick. If’s it one of these type
of comments just delete them!

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Sometimes, It’s actually a person talking good things about your blog.
If it is then you might want approve them :)

It’s fine if you delete the comments, but make sure you check them,
because sometimes it’s a real person.

Does that make sense? – Please Comment if you need further help :)

-Brad

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Jul
31

Sizzling Hot SEO WordPress Plugins

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wordpress-seo-plugin

I’ve been whore’d around the wordpress world…..
I’ve been on the dark side with spammers and black-hats
And was converted to the other side
with Whitehat bloggers and Grayhatters.

Now I consider myself white-hat blogger, with a bit of gray ;)

These are the SEO Plug-IN’s I use right Now!
At a minimal you’ll NEED the AllInONEseoPACk

All In One Seo Pack
Makes your blog Google friendly
Meta-description
Meta-Keywords, etc.

Google XML Sitemaps
Makes your blog easier to crawl for spiders (Google can find all your pages )

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Every-time you Edit your Post you PING all the sites in you list.
Now If you have to edit the post more than 3 times in a minute you may be
banned from all the pinging sites! They will think you are SPAM site.
And ban your site ~ This plug-in stops this from happening :)

Virtual Silo
This plugin STOPS Google PR link leakage.
It removes helps remove duplicate/redundant pages from your blog,
thus saving and redirecting your link juice to where it’s suppose to go.

WP Auto Tagger
This plugin rocks! — It creates tags for you automatically! I’am lazy so I love this :)

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Nov
21

15 Million for a Blog?

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Yep, You read that right!

$15,000,000 USD

Even in this time of a “Global Recession” people are making boat loads of cash!

Who would have thought a “blog” could have brought in sooo much money.
“Bankrate” has purchased the blog, Bankaholics.com.

“BankRate” will pay $12.4 million up front,
with another $2.5 million possible depending on terms of the contract.

This blog isn’t a 20 person blog, It’s a ONE-MAN show! Who’s the man? Johns Wu.
And he’ll be sticking around to assist in the transition and remain on board for the time being.

This is a inspiring story :)
Keep on blogging, the millions will come!

Thanks,
Brad

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