Auto-approving comments

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  saravoorhis · Member · Nov 20, 2014 at 4:24 pm

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  Hello,
  I noticed that when I link to other pages on my site in posts I get an email / notification for me to “approve” said comment / link. Is there a way to auto-approve comments and links from my own posts? It seems redundant to have to approve links to my own site in my own posts.

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 20, 2014 at 11:30 pm

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  To stop self pings see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/#can-i-stop-self-pings
  Frankly, I don’t bother.

  There are pingback and trackback spammers that you need to be aware of.

  Every day I see blogs wherein bloggers have posted trackback and pingback spam.

  Approving pingback and trackback spam makes you look like dumb blogger, because doing so
  devalues your authority in your niche;
  devalues your site content;
  devalues your site’s ranking in the SERPs (search engine page results). http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/09/16/bloggers-clean-up-your-comments/

  And setting up anonymous commenting is akin to throwing down a welcome mat to spammers. Those are the reasons why we recommend comment moderation and examining each and every pingback and trackback carefully.