Today I started receiving a ton of requests to moderate comments on my blog, but when I looked at the comments they are clearly from multiple other people's blogs. What could be the cause of this and what do I do about this?
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They are called 'spammers' and the general consensus is to avoid them.– paradroidCommented Mar 17, 2014 at 23:29
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@Nick Chapman you can disable trackback/pingback. Go and have a look at this post wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/31943/…– Pieter GoosenCommented Mar 18, 2014 at 7:35
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Those are pingback or trackbacks. They are mechanisms by which blogs alert each other about cross-linking or references to other posts.
Pingbacks and trackbacks are common from SPAM or scrapper sites so you do want to take a look and make sure you are not approving comments from disreputable sources but in general, these are normal and can be useful.
The pingback/trackback functionality has been built into WordPress for as long as I can remember. Your site probably sends similar "comments" to other blogs.
answered Mar 17, 2014 at 23:34
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But the thing is, the comments don't make any mention of my site. Commented Mar 17, 2014 at 23:48
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it means that I checked out the comments further and they were definitely pingbacks from spammers Commented Mar 18, 2014 at 18:48