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Link to Your Own Content Without Mucking Up Your Comments

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When someone links to your WordPress blog, a pingback/trackback type of comment shows up in your comment list for that post. The same type of pingback comment is created when you link to your own content. I like my comment streams to be clean and clear, so I’m constantly deleting the pingbacks as soon as they’re created. Not only is that ‘extra work’ I could do without, but I it makes me think twice before I link to content elsewhere on my blog. Finally, a pair of plugins that make linking to your own content super easy and eliminate the ‘extra work’ of the unwanted pingbacks!

SEO Smart Links - can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog, allow you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs, set the nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Woo-hoo! Now linking will happen automatically as I type! Hot-diggity!

But uh-oh - that’ll create a truckload of pingbacks for me to delete. Oh no, it won’t!

No Self Ping - disables pingbacks created by linking to content on your own site, helping to keep your comments clean and tidy.

With this pair of plugins, I can have an incredibly well-linked blog - automatically - without mucking up my comments!

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