Pingbacks and Trackbacks: A good source for Disavow links?

[HLTalk]

I am 100% new to the world of WordPress, more advanced CMS systems, and all the interesting things that have been developed over the last several years on the web.

After installing WordPress I noticed options to allow pingbacks and trackbacks.  Upon researching these, I found it interesting that you can very quickly and easily identify spam wordpress blog sites that mention your article in a spammy fashion if you leave this option ENABLED.  Because you literally get a notification of new nonsense happening on the web that may affect you.

Is this a logical, rational thing to leave enabled and use as one of many tricks to manage new additions to a disavow file?  It almost seems like a Godsend because you don't have to go looking for them.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

It might be a little counter-intuitive to enable ping-backs and trackbacks to find the spammy sites only to have to disavow them, when disabling this function means that they are unable to do a ping-back or trackback in the first place.

I personally wouldn't go looking for spammy backlinks unless you feel they are causing you a problem.

Keep an eye on your Search Console for the links that are appearing and assess each one to see if you think it should be disavowed.

-Andy