You never stop learning, right? Every day, every moment can bring a lesson, can teach you something new. I thought I already picked up a lot in regards to blogging over the last two years and I actually thought I had the pingbacks under control. Well, seems like there is one thing I did not know about pingbacks just yet!
What’s a pingback?
“Pingbacks in WordPress have evolved from the use of trackbacks. When someone links to your post, you’ll get a pingback showing up in your comments moderation queue from the linking site.
This will only be true if they have enabled notification to linked blogs in their settings.
You must also enable the use of pingbacks & trackbacks in your Discussion Settings as well to receive them.” – WordPress
We all love pingbacks. They notify us about the awesome fact that our post was shared or our blog mentioned by another blogger in a post. They are a reminder of the networking going on. When a pingback pops up, it usually makes me excited. I head over to the post in which my blog was mentioned and leave a comment, saying thank you to the blogger who shared my post. I think it’s what you should do, you should definitely let them know that you appreciate it.
When I read a post I like or specifically enjoy a blog I like to share this with all of you. So I link their blog or the post in one of my posts. This should normally create a pingback and notify the other blogger about it. I thought I could just simply link to the homepage of the blog and the trick would be done.
Apparently I was wrong.
If you link to other blogs or posts and the bloggers never get in touch with you it’s not because they are ungrateful. It might be because they simply didn’t get the notification. The pingback didn’t work. I was told recently that apparently you only create a pingback when you link to a post of a page but not if you link to the blog’s URL. Thanks Erika, for letting me know! I will make sure to follow this advice in the future, so when I link posts in posts of mine you all will be notified.
This is one I found out in recent months too – it’s a bit useful! 🙂
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It was you who made me aware of this, Simon! Now I could already pass it on. So thank YOU!
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You know me! Always happy to help ☺
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Oh yes, for sure! And that is one of the special things about you!☺
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Aww… thanks. So are you my friend 🙂
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😊😊
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I’m glad you passed it on to me, Erika!
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I just guessed this could be the reason cause I did not know about it either and wondered why people did not react ☺
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And thanks, Simon!!!
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I think so too…
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Who knew ????? ☺
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Just thinking about all the links I shared that did not create a pingback….
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It really would be nice if WP had a manual on how to blog efficiently and what settings to turn on for this that and the other. No, we all have to find out walking blindly. Great information! Thank you! ❤
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You kind of can find it if you dig… but you need to think of digging first 😉
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I guess I’m dense, or maybe just lazy-I still don’t get it. I have slowly learned bits and pieces over the two or so years I’ve been blogging, mostly by trial and error. I’ll reread your post and try to figure it out!
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Just never link to simply the URL. Link a post or then link to the About page (as an example) or in my case you could link to the Couples page or so.
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Good to know. Thank you for sharing.
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Seems like I’m not the only one who didn’t know…
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It was an aha moment. 🙂
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Thanks for the info! I often wondered if people were getting pingbacks from my blog.
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Same here and often they said they didn’t. I thought it was a fluke but now I know that I didn’t do the right thing…
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You can also use a ping back service to be sure your getting indexed. Most are free to use.
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Interesting!
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Oh I didn’t know! Thank you for sharing this. I did feel sad before when I liked a couple of blog and didn’t hear anything from them 🙂
Have a great day!
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Glad I could help 🙂
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Oh wow, I’ve linked to the main page of several blogs assuming that a pingback applied to any page on their blog. That explains a lot. Thank you for this information!
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Same here… so now we know that it doesn’t create a pingback…
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That’s very cool that you posted about it, Sandra! I happy that even I could give some useful blogging tips. So, I confirm that I received your pingback 😃
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Hahahaha! Glad you did! I know that you asked me a couple of time to link to your homepage. So I wonder if you got all the pingbacks…
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Now we unveiled the mystery😀
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We did! 😀
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😄😄
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Thanks for the consideration, Momma! You always make such a huge effort to let us all know we are appreciated and set such a good example 😊
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😘
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I discovered this in one of my “Month in Review” posts. I had linked to 5 of my own posts plus my homepage. I got pingbacks for all but the homepage. Then I knew.
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Ha! Good way to find out!
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Thank you for sharing this useful information!
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😘
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So that’s possibly why a lot of mine are ignored, thanks for this.
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Same here. I thought it’s a good idea to link to the homepage as people would get the most recent posts right away… guess I was wrong… 😉
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