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Incoming Pings and Trackbacks

This is a discussion on Incoming Pings and Trackbacks within the General Discussion forums, part of the vBSEO SEO Plugin category; vBSEO 's default is "on" for these two items. Isn't that just asking for a lot of trackback spam? I ...

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    Senior Member majordude's Avatar
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    Incoming Pings and Trackbacks

    vBSEO's default is "on" for these two items. Isn't that just asking for a lot of trackback spam?

    I am not familiar with how this works in vb/vbSEO but 100% of all trackbacks on my WordPress or Expression Engine blogs is spam.

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    vBSEO Staff Oleg Ignatiuk's Avatar
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    Although pinbacks and trackbacks are enabled by default in vBSEO config, all subforums have pre-moderation enabled by default too.
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    Has anyone had a problem with trackback spam? I'll keep it on if it works but Im'm skepticle.

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    Same topic being discussed in the private forums. The answer is no, not at this point for most vBSEO users... although we do currently get a lot of spam here @ vBSEO.com

    We are monitoring this closely and already have several contingency plans. We plan on implementing Akismet soon for vBSEO as well.
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    Senior Member majordude's Avatar
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    THAT would be cool. Akimet works very well in WP.