Have you been interlinking or internal permalinking your own posts when writing a blog post? If you have not, you should start doing it now because you can control what are the words that describe your pages with the anchor text used for the links. Also, it allows readers to get deeper into your blog, indirectly extending the time they stay on your blog.
The Fuss About Self Pinging Trackbacks (Internal Permalinking)
When we have a link in our new posts to our old posts, the new posts will always ping the old posts, giving extra trackbacks on the old posts. Some reasons why bloggers don’t want this to happen because of the following reasons:
- It clogs up the comment section (Trackbacks tend to have long "names").
- It serves no interaction in a comment section discussion.
- It can be seen as a cheat to boost comment count.
For various reasons, bloggers delete such pingbacks from the comment moderation section. Some bloggers might act smart by marking internal pingbacks as SPAM which is a TERRIBLY WRONG MOVE!
A trackback on posts by other blogs can help to get attention from the blogger and might also nick some traffic over to your blog if the excerpts shown is relevant to the blog posts.
Marking your own pings as spams will send your trackbacks right into Akismet section on administration panels of other blogs! Thus, don’t mark internal as "Spams"!
Solution to Stop Self Pinging Trackbacks
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Posts such as Wayne Liew Dot Com - Looking Back on Year 2007 have tonnes of internal links and you can imagine the number of internal trackbacks that it has caused onto my older posts. Deleting the trackbacks might cost some precious time and it will not be the case any more.
No Self Ping Plugin by MDA will stop this from happening to your blog. This plugin might seem to be a simple plugin created by a person with a simple blog but its function can save lots of your time if you frequently linkback to your old post. It also won’t require any settings or a Options page for you to work through. Simply activate after uploading it will stop the internal trackbacks from showing again.
Feedback On No Self Ping Plugin and Internal Pinging
Do you frequently link to your old posts? If you do, how do you treat your internal trackbacks? After having it installed on your blog, does it work as promised?
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January 8th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Thanks a lot for sharing the plugin. No more wasting time on deleting self pingbacks!
January 8th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I use the Get Recent Comments plugin and enabled the blocking of trackbacks from my own site.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Do you frequently link to your old posts?
It depends on what I am writing, aye.
When writing up game guides, yes.
If you do, how do you treat your internal trackbacks?
I was impressed by your unique styling of dealing with ping backs and buggered you until you gave me a copy of your comments.php
After having it installed on your blog, does it work as promised?
It does, thanks for sharing, mate.
January 9th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I want to link back my post, but most of the time I would have forgotten what I have blogged. So there’s not much of self pinging in my blog.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Great post! To be honest, I’ve never really given it much thought. I always let trackbacks from my own blog go on through.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
@ Ruchir
It helps to save me a lot of time as well.
@ pablopabla
Get Recent Comments shows a list of recent comments which does not link to commentators blog right? This is the reason I didn’t use them…
@ Deimos
I am glad it works for you. Well, I will try my best to help if someone approach me and ask for it.
@ yung .
Just to help you to refresh your memory.
Maybe you should try to create an Archive page then.
@ Tay
Well, it is not a popular practice since it seems to some that we are seeding our own comment count. If it is one or two, it wouldn’t matter; if it is a case whereit has 6-10 trackbacks and all of it was self-generated, it seems…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:16 am
cool, wonder how u did that, might use it for my own too, because i do link back some old post
January 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Did you delete those nasty internal trakbacks or did you just leave them there?
March 13th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Awesome plugin, thanks.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:52 am
Just used my first internal link when I noticed that I got a pingback on one of my posts, so I searched google and came across this post, thanks