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I've gotten two of these from the same location. They don't make sense to me. They don't actually say anything, they just include the title of one of my posts.

Are they spam?


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New pingback on your post #8 "Confessions of a Toiletry Addict"
Website: Who names a shampoo after an STD anyway? » TravelBlog Archive » Snarky in Africa (IP: 216.139.228.220 , www.australialogue.com)
URI : http://blogs.bootsnall.com/snarkyinla/?p=10
Excerpt:
[...] [...] Confessions of a Toiletry Addict [...] [...]

You can see all pingbacks on this post here:
http://blogs.bootsnall.com/snarkyinla/?p=8#comments
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From the ever-popular Wikipedia:

quote:

A Pingback is one of three types of Linkbacks 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.

In other words, someone has linked to your post, and the way it shows up in the blog system is as a "comment" on that post. If you click on the link in that comment you should be able to see who linked to your post originally.

Huh, well I thought that, but then couldn't find any reference to the blog from the URL it came from so that didn't make sense... They didn't actually include a link, but just cut out my own post title and put it as the comment.

I'll dig deeper tho...

OK all, never mind, I figured it out...