We love blogging. Many of us use it as a money making tool. We get delighted when we see people commenting on our blogs. However, do you know that not all comments are with good intentions?

When I started out with a blog (not demonfanclub) 3 months ago, the first time I received a pingback was when I linked to my own posts.

But I was so green then, that I began to search “What Is A Pingback?” to understand it and what does it do. For benefit of those who have asked the same question as I did:

1. Pingbacks are also called Trackbacks.
2. They only appear when you link to your
   own posts, or 
3. When others link to your posts

(However, you will only get this if you enabled the pingback feature, generally, they are enabled).

Not too long after, I began to receive spam comments that looks legit, but when I look closer enough, the skeleton is revealed when I saw that both comments had the same ip address, with 2 different names and urls, commenting on different posts on my blog. This one is still okay. I mean blog commenting is one of the strategies to get more readership. Especially on popular blogs.

Sometime later, my blog began to receive pingbacks from other sites. The pingbacks got landed in the Akismet Spam filter. Once in a while, I will check out the “spams” that landed there. I would copy the URL and open it in a new window or tab to check out the site.

Sometimes… my browser will send me a warning stating

MALWARE DETECTED on the site! Are you sure you want to proceed?

This one is the killer. I was glad that I made the effort to check out the site. If I had been lax, I could be subjecting my readers to virus or malware injections if they do not have any kind of protection!

Let me ask you:

If your blog is infested with such pingbacks, do you think your readers or customers will return if they found out that their PC is infected becos of a malicious pingback or comment on your blog?

I don’t think so…

Protect your money making blogs by being more vigilant in moderating the comments and pingbacks.

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