Wordpress "trackbacks" Errors

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[Hurf]

Hi Shirle,

Could you provide more information on the error?

I'm assuming that this is appearing when you look at a Crawl Diagnostic Summary?

If so, is it an ERROR, WARNING or NOTICE?

Clicking down through the error messages and then on an example of the error usually provides you with a short summary of the nature of the problem. i suspect may not be a technical issue i.e. something being 'broken' rather an issue related to the links generated by the trackback...

Trackback (taken from Wordpress site)

"Trackback helps you to notify another author that you wrote something related to what he had written on his blog, even if you don't have an explicit link to his article. This improves the chances of the other author sitting up and noticing that you gave him credit for something, or that you improved upon something he wrote, or something similar. With pingback and trackback, blogs are interconnected. Think of them as the equivalents of acknowledgements and references at the end of an academic paper, or a chapter in a textbook."

Here is another clear summary of what a trackback is:

http://www.optiniche.com/blog/117/wordpress-trackback-tutorial/

A trackback isn't bad for SEO if it generates a link to a genuine article on an above board site. However, spammers will try and exploit this to generate additional inbound links to their spammy site and of course you don't want to tarnish your own sites reputation by linking to spammy sites.

If someone links to your blog post and you allow a trackback, by publishing it, you are giving a link back to that particular site. Google doesn’t reward excessive link exchanges and may lead to a site being penalised for this practice.

You can of course turn off trackbacks in Wordpress if you can't see any benefit to them (or don't need them).