WordPress provides users to automatically ping other sites when you link to them using trackbacks. In addition to that you also have an option to allow others to send pingbacks to you.
Linking back is always good, however WordPress displays these links using the “nofollow” attribute. So is it good to allow a nofollow linkback to your own website? Considering Google’s new policy changes with regards to nofollow links, and how you might eventually lose ranking over it, adding an additional linkback to your own blog with a nofollow link definitely does not gauge well.
On my tech blog I use a plugin called No Self Pings, which in turn does not send pings to my own blog whenever I link internally. Of course many might think that doing away with this functionality might gain lesser conversions. However, you can always try out a related posts plugin, which in turn adds […]
Original post by Keith Dsouza
