“The Trackback is dead,” many are saying. Others (including me) think that the trackback/pingback is alive and well. Trackbacks, as Paul O’Flaherty says, are more valuable to him than comments. Depending on their preferences, bloggers either enable or disable trackbacks. Big bloggers, like John Chow, often disable them because of the size of their blogs. They get innumerable quantities of backlinks, and they just don’t want to deal with all of the trackbacks. It’s much easier to moderate comments than pingbacks.
Personally, I like trackbacks. If someone wants to write a large blog post on their blog, rather than leaving a large comment on my blog, it’s fine with me. The only problem I have is with the display of the pingbacks.
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