Wordpress pingback help

[itsblitz]

hello, me again asking for help lol, I know there are alot of affiliates who use wordpress to build and manage their sites so could someone please help me with explaining what pingbacks are and how do they affect me. I ask because i have just opened the blog comments feature on my slot cheats guide site, i want to see if people will discuss some of the guides on their and help with seo through user generated comments but i am starting to get 'Pingbacks' i dont know what these are and i dont know if they are a good thing, should i block them? thanks in advance for help

[itsblitz]

i dont have this site in my sig. Its www.slotcheatsguide.com

[fossil]

The best way to think about pingbacks is as remote comments

• Person A posts something on his blog.
• Person B posts on her own blog, linking to Person A's post. This automatically sends a pingback to Person A when both have pingback enabled blogs.
• Person A's blog receives the pingback, then automatically goes to Person B's post to confirm that the pingback did, in fact, originate there.

The pingback is generally displayed on Person A's blog as simply a link to Person B's post. In this way, all editorial control over posts rests exclusively with the individual authors (unlike the trackback excerpt, which can be edited by the trackback recipient). The automatic verification process introduces a level of authenticity, making it harder to fake a pingback.

More at http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging