Are pingbacks on blogs worth getting as links?

**crazihos** · 20-01-09

Morning everyone,

Just had a pingback on a blog of mine - I know its reciprical when you get a pingback so itsnt great but its still a link.

Now I wondered how valuable pingback links are, if I was to write in context articles on my site about other do-follow sites in my field and get pingback links from them would the links be worth having?

Seems like a win win to me - you get to keep in context content you write on you site and get a link out of it?

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Russ

**Shimrit** · 21-01-09

If you can find dofollow blogs then yeah, it'll count, though probably not that much. Most blogs are nofollow now for any user submitted links, including pingbacks, I think.

**ContentBoss** · 21-01-09

nofollow is still primarily a google thing, and do you believe what they say? DO you believe what they said last month?. There's no real independent method to 'audit' their algorithm to make sure thay aren't just yanking our chains (as usual).

Frankly even a nofollow links is worth having, as long as it hasn't cost you anything to acquire it.

**Mogga** · 26-02-09

I've quite a few recently from "related articles" but they're clearly not ... and some of the sites are just so spammy ....

**nordicpeacock** · 26-02-09

I'm also getting a lot of pingbacks from what appear to be auto generated blogs. I mark them as spam (I'm using wordpress). I've no idea why they do it.

**mtuffin** · 26-02-09

Originally Posted by nordicpeacock

I'm also getting a lot of pingbacks from what appear to be auto generated blogs. I mark them as spam (I'm using wordpress). I've no idea why they do it.

If you through enough at it some will stick.

Say an autoblog makes 5 posts per day at random, and on each of those five posts 25 trackbacks are sent. Thats potentially 875 deeplinks per week. Some of them will get approved.

Despite Google saying nofollow links don't count I'm with contentboss and think they do, although they are very much devalued.

Mike

**BigSexy** · 26-02-09

Originally Posted by ContentBoss

nofollow is still primarily a google thing, and do you believe what they say? DO you believe what they said last month?. There's no real independent method to 'audit' their algorithm to make sure thay aren't just yanking our chains (as usual).

Frankly even a nofollow links is worth having, as long as it hasn't cost you anything to acquire it.

That's a good point. I also remember a well-written article that had demonstrated how no-follow tag would bring benefits even in Google's eyes...if I found the URL I'll post it.