What is Pingback?

[dennis123]

What is Pingback?

[John-Smith]

A pingback is one of four types of linkback methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles.

[kajal351]

A pingback is basically an automated comment that gets created when another blog links to you. There can also be self-pingbacks which are created when you link to an article within your own blog.

[milinmaru]

A pingback is a type of comment that’s created when you link to another blog post where pingbacks are enabled.

[brandmedia]

Pingback allows you to notify other bloggers that you have linked to their article on your website. ... They can then choose to allow your link to appear on their website. Depending on how your WordPress theme is configured, pingbacks on your site may or may not show an excerpt of content from the other person's blog.

[astrodost]

pingback
/ˈpɪŋbak/Submit
noun
an automatic notification sent when a link has been created to a person's blog post from an external website, allowing a reciprocal link to that website to be created.
"at times it seems as if these posts just go out into the ether and disappear, so it's nice to get a pingback once in a while"