So, I get a dozen trackback pings from a weblog I have never heard of: Inside Out. Cool, but twelve trackbacks from one entry. Hmm… I check it out and while my SPAM bells are ringing, I figure the guy just likes my site. But then today another 25+ trackbacks pop up. Wow, this *is* amazing. Either he misunderstands the fundamental purpose of trackbacks, is really excited about GMail resources, or is building his nascent trackback SPAM operation and trying to grab some quick pagerank and build some backlink juice on some hot keyword anchor text. 38+ trackback pings? I vote SPAM. I could be wrong — so let’s review proper trackback manners. I like an blog post on your site. I trackback that entry as I write my entry, not my favorite 38.

Sure, I got good GMail content. Awesome. Link my main GMail page at: http://www.aimlesswords.com/gmail. Not my entire GMail archive…

Paul, the blog owner, is probably not using trackback pings to build PR. Probably not…