Comments on: Have Trackbacks Become Too Spammy To Be Worthwhile?

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By: moserw

moserw — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:35:12 +0000

Totally agree with you. I have so much spam on just trackbacks its amazing. Thankfully I have been running Disqus on my blog for a while now so none of it is visible. All I get are the email notifications of the same…

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By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:15:19 +0000

Tony – what do you think about those theme hacks to split up trackbacks and comments?

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The 6 Steps to Stop Content Theft : The Blog Herald — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:36:10 +0000

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By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:34:05 +0000

@Girish — no question … there are some older blogs who have dropped comments altogether in favour of getting internal trackbacks, and then publishing those comments on their blog … Jason Calacanis comes to mind, although every now and again he opens up his comments.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:32:29 +0000

@Daniel — I knew that you guys were in the works to figure something out! Let me know how it goes so we can help spread the word. ;)

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:31:44 +0000

@Ajay — closing down old posts is one trick, although it means closing down comments (obviously) if your readers want to revisit old content. The problem I’ve found, personally and on this blog, unfortunately, is that trackback spam also happens with great frequency on *new* posts … as autoblogging software pulls RSS feeds to scrape stuff. Great point, though!

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:29:58 +0000

@Bengt: For most bloggers, they do have the “nofollow” set up, so you may not get credit from Google if that’s what you mean; if you rather mean visibility for your blog, irrespective of *what* Google thinks, then, I agree — right on! :)

By: Bengt

Bengt — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:17:36 +0000

I think trackbacks are important since they create inward links. But linking out provides value to my readers anyway.

By: Girish

Girish — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:58:23 +0000

Trackbacks are pretty important considering the fact that it allows the bloggers to keep track of the various people who are linking back to their blog. This allows you to keep track of all those people who like your posts.

however, this problem exists because of those people, as you rightfully mentioned in your post, who exploit this useful feature. As Ajay said a plugin could solve all problems.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:35:15 +0000

Trackbacks are important, however I do rely on pingbacks as well.

Spam will always be there, it is expected and simply unstoppable. But the use of a good anti-spam plugin will keep it off your blog. I do get tonnes of trackbacks, but I’ve closed down all my old posts and so don’t have to worry much about them.

By: Daniel Ha

Daniel Ha — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:29:19 +0000

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the mention. We recognize the importance of trackbacks with Disqus and we especially realize the drawbacks of the traditional implementation.

I agree with many of the points you bring up here and we hope to be doing some good things around this.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:36:52 +0000

Oryx — no problem, although I think it goes without saying that if you want “comment market” “effectively”, then you may want to take down the “snark” down a few “notches”.

By: Oryx Orange

Oryx Orange — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:47:38 +0000

Excuse me while I “comment market” on your post. I am following your advice, because this is taking less than 5 minutes to write, so I will do this instead of creating a pithy post.

By: DigMyPage

DigMyPage — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:07:25 +0000

Have Trackbacks Become Too Spammy To Be Worthwhile?