Edublogs Help and Support » Pingback http://help.edublogs.org Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:10:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What is a Pingback? http://help.edublogs.org/2009/08/01/what-is-a-pingback/ http://help.edublogs.org/2009/08/01/what-is-a-pingback/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:12:02 +0000 Sue Waters http://help.edublogs.org/?p=25 A pingback happens when another blogger writes a post and includes a link to your post in their post.

When they publish their post you’ll normally receive an email notification letting you know they have referenced ( i.e. linked to) your post.

The email notification commonly includes an extract from the post they’ve written, a link to their post, a link to the post you had written and a link for deleting or spamming the pingback.

Clicking on the link to their post means you can:

  1. Check out what they’ve written
  2. Leave a comment on their post (if you choose)
  3. Decide whether you want to approve, delete or spam the pingback. Mostly you approve all pingbacks unless it obviously been written by a spam blog (these you delete or spam).

Once you’ve approved the pingback it’s displayed in the comments on your post with just the extract of post showing enclosed in brackets like these [...]. This is so other readers can follow the link and read the post on the other persons blog if they are interested.

Below is what a pingback might look like in the comments of a post.

 

]]> http://help.edublogs.org/2009/08/01/what-is-a-pingback/feed/ 0 How To Link To Other Bloggers Posts http://help.edublogs.org/2009/02/12/how-to-link-to-other-bloggers-posts/ http://help.edublogs.org/2009/02/12/how-to-link-to-other-bloggers-posts/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:58:03 +0000 Sue Waters http://help.edublogs.org/?p=26 Reading blog posts that talks about other bloggers’ posts but doesn’t include links to them is really frustrating for readers. Why? Because readers like to follow the links and check out the information in more detail but without the links they can’t!

All you have to do is:

  1. Copy the URL of the post you want to link to.
  2. In the post that you are writing highlight the text you want linked to the post, click on Insert/Edit Link button, paste the post URL and then click INSERT.

It’s good blogging etiquette to link to:

  1. A person’s blog if you mention a blogger
  2. The post if you are talking about a particular post on a blog

See also: What is a Pingback?

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