If You are Publishing
Trackback Comments on Your Blog
Then You are Giving AWAY SEO Value
From Your Pages!

Please read this post to the bottom, otherwise you can keep losing the SEO value from your pages.

In one of the previous posts on this blog we started to talk about trackbacks as an instrument to check one way backlinks that you build inside Free Traffic System and outside this system (for details read post about what is a trackback and how to use it for backlinks checking).

And – thanks to your questions about trackbacks – we noticed that many people are approving these trackback comments and publish them on their blog post pages. This is a big SEO mistake.

Of course, you are the boss on your blog, you do whatever you wish with the blog, and Free Traffic System team does not interfere with your decisions. But this is what happens behind the curtain when you approve/publish a trackback comment.

When the trackback comment in published, you see it appearing as a comment under one of your blog posts. It is very important to notice that this comment has an OUTGOING link to ANOTHER blog. So, you are doing your best to build one way links inside Free Traffic System and then give away this virtual SEO juice that you have managed to build for the page of your site to ANOTHER page of ANOTHER site.

Surely if the comment would bring up some very useful information that seriously adds to what you have said in your own post – then approving this type of comment makes sense, and you can close the eyes on giving away a backlink. But trackback comments bring nothing important in terms of information to your blog post.

So, no informational value from trackback commment, and you give them a backlink. This is TOO GENEROUS when speaking of SEO. Free Traffic System strongly recommends NOT to approve/publish trackback comments on your blog.

What to Do with ALREADY Approved Trackback Comments?

Go to your WordPress admin area on the blog, into the section Comments. There you should find a button Unapprove. Tick all trackback comments that you have already published and then click Unapprove.

This will bring the trackback comments back into your admin section, without making them visible on the blog post pages and you will stop SEO leakage.

Can I DELETE Trackback Comments?

You can, but don’t forget that trackback comments are a great tool to see from where exactly you are getting one way backlinks. That is why we recommend not to delete them – let them stay inside your WP admin area. Just make sure not to approve them ;)