An automatic notification sent when a link has been created to a person's blog post from an external website, allowing a reciprocal link to that website to be created.
‘at times it seems as if these posts just go out into the ether and disappear, so it's nice to get a pingback once in a while’
‘I actually thought the pingback for this was spam.’
‘My site went on that same day to receive over 50 pingbacks!’
‘Quite frankly I find those pingbacks really annoying.’
‘It repinged back when I republished it, so I had to manually go and delete the pingbacks on the old post.’
‘Short of closing off comments and pingbacks permanently, there is no way for a blogger to avoid spam.’
‘I see a lot of "pingbacks" in the comments section.’
‘This works for trackbacks and pingbacks too, and we even go the extra step of whitelisting domains that are in your blogroll.’
‘Since the relaunch of this section in September 2005, we've included blog pingbacks among the "letters" section, recognising that people might not want to write a letter, or even send us an email.’
‘I appreciate the encouragement, and you're more than welcome on the pingback!’
‘When you link to another blog, they'll typically get notified (via a pingback) that someone has mentioned them.’
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