Why a Link inside the article becomes a comment

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    chokjevon · Member ·

    I want to know why is it that whenever I add a web link inside an article, my email box receives a message that I need to approve it like as a comment?

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    yesthatsablog · Member ·

    Is the web link to a different article on your blog?

    If yes, then it’s a pingback thing. Basically, when someone links to your blog post, WordPress wants to add a comment about that link (to notify you that said someone linked to your blog post, so that you know what people talk about you), and the system doing it doesn’t care if said someone is also you.
    I keep getting this too, and it’s a bit inconvenient (for one, it makes me think that I had gotten an actual comment, and I’m inevitably disappointed when I see what happened).

    If no, then I have no idea, sorry.

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    chokjevon · Member ·

    Thanks yesthatsablog, your answer has given me some hint on the reason why. For my case, it’s my own links between different articles. Yes, like what you said, ha ha… I felt a bit dissappointed too :). But the main concern for me is the inconveniences and the technicality of it. Let’s say, what if I don’t do anything about it, it will be kept/recorded in my comment notification, waiting for my action. Would it affect the content of my article or not effective on the linkage? If it has blocked the function, what should I do? Or rather what did you do? Approve, recycle back, or what?
    Thanks for helping out.

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    yesthatsablog · Member ·

    I think I just ignored such entries, and kept them in my comment notification. I get sufficiently few comments (whether real or fake) that it doesn’t really matter.

    Some people actually want their posts to have a self-pingback; I’m not one of them, but for all I know you may be.
    It can occasionally be useful (essentially, readers of your blog who come to an old article will be able to find out what new articles link to it).

    Now that I think of it, I’ve actually made a post about my own opinion (as of a year and a bit ago, but it hadn’t changed much).

    And just for the record, no, it would not break the links, or affect the content in any other way (except that, if you accept the comment, it would provide a link from the old article to the new one, which can occasionally be useful).

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    chokjevon · Member ·

    Ok.. thanks for the valuable input and sharing.

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