Pingback is a method for web/blog authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their posts. Typically, web publishing software such as WordPress will automatically inform the relevant parties on behalf of the user, allowing for the possibility of automatically creating links to referring documents.
For example, Sharon writes an interesting article on her blog. Mary reads Sharon's article and comments about it, linking back to Sharon's original post. Using pingback, Mary's software can automatically notify Sharon that her post has been linked to, and Sharon's software can then include this information on her site.
The pingback system is a way for a blog to be automatically notified when other Web sites link to it. It is entirely transparent to the linking author, requiring no user intervention to work, and operates on principles of automatic discovery of everything that it needs to know. A sample blog post involving pingback might go like this:
It enables reverse linking — a way of going back up a chain of links rather than merely drilling down.
The best way to think about pingbacks is as remote comments.
The pingback is generally displayed on Person A's blog as simply a link to Person B's post. In this way, all editorial control over posts rests exclusively with the individual authors (unlike the trackback excerpt, which can be edited by the trackback recipient). The automatic verification process introduces a level of authenticity, making it harder to fake a pingback.
If a site is Pingback enabled, each time you link-out you will be "pinging" external sites. Pingback requires for Site A to physically link to Site B.
Comments on blogs are often criticized as lacking authority, since anyone can post anything using any name they like: there's no verification process to ensure that the person is who they claim to be. Pingbacks aim to provide some verification to blog commenting. You can set your blog to moderate pingbacks and so have control over them.
You can read the official pingback documentation here.
Pingback is a method for web/blog authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their posts. Typically, web publishing software such as WordPress will automatically inform the relevant parties on behalf of the user, allowing for the possibility of automatically creating links to referring documents.
For example, Sharon writes an interesting article on her blog. Mary reads Sharon's article and comments about it, linking back to Sharon's original post. Using pingback, Mary's software can automatically notify Sharon that her post has been linked to, and Sharon's software can then include this information on her site.
The pingback system is a way for a blog to be automatically notified when other Web sites link to it. It is entirely transparent to the linking author, requiring no user intervention to work, and operates on principles of automatic discovery of everything that it needs to know. A sample blog post involving pingback might go like this:
It enables reverse linking — a way of going back up a chain of links rather than merely drilling down.
The best way to think about pingbacks is as remote comments.
The pingback is generally displayed on Person A's blog as simply a link to Person B's post. In this way, all editorial control over posts rests exclusively with the individual authors (unlike the trackback excerpt, which can be edited by the trackback recipient). The automatic verification process introduces a level of authenticity, making it harder to fake a pingback.
If a site is Pingback enabled, each time you link-out you will be "pinging" external sites. Pingback requires for Site A to physically link to Site B.
Comments on blogs are often criticized as lacking authority, since anyone can post anything using any name they like: there's no verification process to ensure that the person is who they claim to be. Pingbacks aim to provide some verification to blog commenting. You can set your blog to moderate pingbacks and so have control over them.
You can read the official pingback documentation here.
