Have been reading on your blog for over an hour now, lol. Anyway, since I didn’t “get” the whole pingbacks thing, sp this was a great read. Thanks!

But what I don’t get is why you would place a pingback to your own blog, like the pingback above? Is this for SEO purposes or for interlinking?

1. How to create a pingback.
2. Pingbacks are worthwhile.
3. You’re of the opinion guest blogging is better than blog commenting.

I’ve done blog commenting and I strive to seriously contribute to the conversation. I don’t spam. But, it’s a lot of work finding DoFollow comments. I find the packets with lists of dofollow blogs often list blogs that are NoFollow (more likely the result of an influx of spam).

Anyway, I’m going to give the pingback method a shot because it’s very little effort for a decent pay off. Moreover, and more importantly, on account of your recommendation about guest blogging, I just completed my first guest blog post and it was happily accepted by a high-traffic, PR4 website in my niche. I spent about an hour writing the post.

What I learned about guest posting is I know my niches very well, so it wasn’t hard to write a unique, high-quality article for a guest blog written from a perspective that the target blog would appreciate.

I have three more guest blogging articles in the works and hope to get them published on very high-traffic, high PR blogs. Again, I aim to write the posts from a perspective that best serves the target blog.

Anyway, I bought Chris Garrett’s guest blogging course on your recommendation and it’s excellent (although I’d prefer all the info be available immediately rather than in installments, but the info is fantastic) and through your affiliate link (I always try to buy through an affiliate link when a recommendation proved helpful).

I digress here, your post is about pingbacks, which I’m going to give a try. Thanks for the info … I didn’t realize creating a pingback was as simple as linking to a related blog post.

In fact, I’ve found many times that the initiating link to my site is gone when I go back to the pinging site. Not sure how that works, other than the website owner is trying to get a cheap one-way backlink (which is what you are getting with a blog comment).