Title: are ping back comments necessary?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# are ping back comments necessary?

 *  [Janet B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janet-b/)
 * (@janet-b)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-ping-back-comments-necessary/)
 * I have read and understand the purpose of ping-backs. My question is does anyone
   leave these as comments on their blog posts or do you delete them, that is do
   they serve any purpose except to show me the admin that the blogs are communicating
   thanks Janet

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-ping-back-comments-necessary/#post-4987517)
 * A thorough reading of the link below will tell you about pingbacks and trackbacks.
   Then, using the options or deleting them may be up to you.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Using_Pingbacks_and_Trackbacks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging#Using_Pingbacks_and_Trackbacks)

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