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Should I be deleting spam trackbacks/pingbacks?

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10JQKAs last edited by

I'm getting spammy trackbacks/pingbacks on my Wordpress site. Should I bother deleting these or do these count as backlinks?
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10JQKAs last edited by

Thanks guys!
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seoroyal last edited by

YEah delete it for sure...
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upick-162391 last edited by

LOL yes man, anything that is SPAM is auto delete in my books
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wojkwasi last edited by

Delete!
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