Having pings to your site is great to notify you that someone has sent a pingback of your blog post. Here’s what made it easier for me to understand the difference between a ping and pingback:
- Pingbacks - Person A links up to Person B by adding a link to Person B’s post. A pingback will automatically send Person B a notification that Person A was cool enough to link up to their blog post.
- Pings – A Ping is the actual “notification” Person B gets when Person A linked up to one of their blog post.
The problem with pings is that when you reference an old post of yours in a current post, you’ll start to receive annoying pings from yourself in your comments area. NOt only does it look tacky seeing a bunch of pings from yourself, but it also clutters your comment area with unnecessary pingbacks to your self.
WordPress plugin: No Self Pings
Ever see those commercials about the Apple iPhone, how there’s an app for everything? Well in the world of WorldPress, there’s a plugin for everything! To stop getting pingbacks from yourself, all you need is the No Self Pings Wordpress Plugin.
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2 Wordpress Plugins To Show Your Love
by Jack Nguyen on February 8, 2010
CommentLuv and KeywordLuv
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and what better way to show love to your readers than with the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv plugin for Wordpress. These plugins will enhance the commenting experience on your post and it will definitely give your readers a little nudge to leave some comments. These plugins are basically giving your readers an incentive to leave comments. Here’s a breakdown of how each plugin works:
Here’s what it will look like without KeywordLuv:
Jack from Online Marketing Blog Says:
With the KeywordLuv plugin, here’s what it will look like:
Jack from Online Marketing Blog Says:
The way to do this is to make sure you have a website url in the website field, then in the name field you would enter this format: name@keyword. So in my example I would type in Jack@Online Marketing Blog. Certain Wordpress themes might not work with this plugin but there are work arounds to it, just click on the link above to redirect to the plugin site. There you have, start spreading the love!
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