The moderation process is pretty straightforward, as trackbacks and pingbacks make their appearance in the comment moderation area. Just so you, our blog readers know, most of both these types of responses are going to be SPAM. Spammers use trackbacks and pingbacks to get a backlink from your site. In some cases pingbacks may come from users who actually steal your article, word-for-word. In doing that they get any links in the article that come from other articles on your site. Now that you know this, how to moderate WordPress blog pingbacks and trackbacks should focus on keeping spammers at bay. It should focus on legitimate bloggers that actually help you get exposure by linking to your article.
How to Moderate WordPress Blog Pingbacks and Trackbacks Wisely
Unfortunately, there are going to be minimal times really when either pingbacks or trackbacks come through legitimately. Since that is true, it serves your best interests to just disable these features. This is how to moderate WordPress blog pingbacks and trackbacks wisely. It becomes a complete waste of time to attempt moderating a lot of SPAM.
If you are fed up with spammy pingbacks and trackbacks and annoyed by self pings like we are, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Disabling the features is fairly simple. Just go to Settings, then Discussion. Uncheck the “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)” box. Click “Save Changes”. Done and done.
How to moderate WordPress blog pingbacks and trackbacks takes us next to the process of moderating blog comments. In that process, you should require the comment author to fill out their name and e-mail. You can hold comments in a queue for review. For example, sometimes comments will come through with nested links. That is often a sure sign of SPAM. Create moderation queue settings that will capture such comments and others you deem questionable. You can also set up a black list for comments with any number of words in the content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP. If it’s on the blacklist, it will automatically be marked SPAM. Learn more on comments moderation in a Prostyle Development article coming soon. Learn more about how to blog wisely and smartly with the digital marketing experts here at Prostyle Development. Let’s talk about turning your blogs into a goto business power tool.