Pingbacks in comments - bad?

[Ms Naughty]

It seems that with blogging, the rules should be different. Having outbound links is a standard part of blogging and the theory behind pingbacks is that it allows readers to find another post related to yours. In theory it should encourage lots of linking all over the place because you then get traffic back.

Then again, google is quite, quite mad. Who knows what the hell is going on with it.

(By the way, I wrote a silly post, asking why google has forsaken me like a guilty lover: Hey Google: Ms Naughty is about porn for women)

[bartjes]

That is a funny post, if that won't give you better google traffic, I don't know what will!

[walrus]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

It seems that with blogging, the rules should be different. Having outbound links is a standard part of blogging and the theory behind pingbacks is that it allows readers to find another post related to yours. In theory it should encourage lots of linking all over the place because you then get traffic back.

Then again, google is quite, quite mad. Who knows what the hell is going on with it.

(By the way, I wrote a silly post, asking why google has forsaken me like a guilty lover: Hey Google: Ms Naughty is about porn for women)

This got me to thinking...so now that I have a headache, I'd like to take a stab at what I believe to be the answer to your question.

If I understand pingbacks correctly, they are basicly a mechanism for doing a recipricol link exchange. Lets say, I take your Google post and tomorrow I write a similar one on Google love and add your URL to my post. That's one outbound link to you. Now when you get the pingback and approve it, I get a recipricol link back to my post from your comments page.

Plus it's a natural link, the type that Google should love, because in both cases it's surrounded by relevant text.

In your specific case, if I click on the sugasm post (73% of Americans Hate Porn) and follow the page down toward the bottom, I do indeed find a link back to your post. But I did notice that your not really doing much more than a normal link and perhaps that causes some problems. (Google seeing it as nothing more than another links page) Try adding a 3-4 sentence review after each link or embedding the link inside the review.