Title: Pingback Comments
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Pingback Comments

 *  [gsdoby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gsdoby/)
 * (@gsdoby)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-comments/)
 * Yesterday I found a comment that said it was from a pingback and appeared to 
   just show an attachment to a link. Can anyone tell me more about this. How is
   it generated? Should I consider it spam?

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 *  [Simon Hedin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designstoler/)
 * (@designstoler)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-comments/#post-4714120)
 * I get a lot of these to. The pingback is ment to let you know that someone have
   found your blog post interesting enough to link to it.
 * The pingback system also motivates other bloggers to write about you, since they
   get a link back from the blogpost they are linking to.
 * Spamers have exploited this method, and will send you a pingback without actually
   linking to your site. The idea is that some webmasters won’t check the link and
   just approve the pingback link.
 * If the pingback is not legit or not from a trustworthy source, you should report
   it as spam, or just delete it as I do.

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 * Last reply from: [Simon Hedin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designstoler/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingback-comments/#post-4714120)
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