Here are some questions which were posed to me recently …

1) In my experience, pinging is only for purpose of page indexing rather than getting backlinks, do you have similar experience or I am wrong?

I only use pinging for getting indexed. In terms of backlinks, you might be confusing “trackbacks” which have long been used as a form of “spam” to get backlinks.

2) I wonder where the new WordTracker get their data from? I do not think is from metacrwaler anymore. The new data counts look suspicious.

I actually haven’t logged into WordTracker for some time, although I have a current subscription. I hadn’t heard they had changed their data source, as it used to be from metacrawlers and Dogpile, mostly. I contacted their support for a definite answer, but did not hear back from them.

3) What is the use of rel=”bookmark” as far as SEO is concerned?

You can read more about the rel=”bookmark” here. While it is still early, I don’t see any SEO benefits with the tag.

4) A plugin in FireFox highlight rel=”bookmark” as rel=”nofollow”. Thus are they the same thing?

No. They are not the same thing.

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