Commenters name leads to his/her Squidoo lens!

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   Jane@CMposted 14 years ago

   I had a comment on a hub and the name was in blue, assuming it was another hubber, I clicked on the name & was directed to HIS article on the same thing on Squidoo....beware, they may not all be hubbers! Pissed me off!

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      relacheposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      This is nothing new.  People have been putting their emails, web sites and other URLs linked to their comment names since the feature was first invented.

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      Mark Knowlesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Why did it piss you off?
      
      Now you know how to create an incoming link to your hub from another site.

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      Lady_Eposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I've been curious about this too. I have quite a few. At least two are Hubbers. When I clicked on their profile name in my comment box to read their Hubs, it took me to a webpage of theirs outside HP.
      
      Now, I don't click on such names cos you can tell. (a small square with a little arrow)

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      cosetteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      yeah I don't know how they do that...you click on their name and instead of taking you to their Hubpages profile, it takes you off the site to another site.
      
      I hate that.

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   Mishaposted 14 years ago

   That's weird. Frankly, I don;t see how this could be done

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   Marisa Wrightposted 14 years ago

   Yes, I've had that happen quite a lot and have never worried about it.  You'll see it on lots of blogs as well as on HubPages - I just assumed it was normal.

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   Mishaposted 14 years ago

   On a second thought, I recalled that if you are not logged in, you have an option of putting a link to your name, Marisa is right. So no, scratch what I said before and just watch for that little arrow after the name

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   Jane@CMposted 14 years ago

   Yes, I will be watching for that little arrow from now on!

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   sunforgedposted 14 years ago

   whats to watch out for? ...this is completely normal, a hubbers name leads to their profile an unregistered commenter leads to wherever they designate, it doesnt hurt anything

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   Lissieposted 14 years ago

   Exactly sunforged - its how the internet works -get used to it!

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   Len Cannonposted 14 years ago

   You're going to go nuts when you find out about emails with spoofed addresses.

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   stefferposted 14 years ago

   just a method of BUM marketing, bloggers do it all the time
   we all want back links to our hubs, he does the same
   pretty normal in internet land.

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    Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago

    As long as the comments are legit and supportive it doesn't bother me in the least. What goes around comes around.

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    johnr54posted 14 years ago

    The offsite links like those are nofollowed as well, so if they are using it for link spam to help their Google rankings it's for naught.

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    EYEAM4ANARCHYposted 14 years ago

    Do you guys also hate having the ability to leave a link to your hubs when you comment on someone's blog?

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    Jane@CMposted 14 years ago

    Wow - thanks for the feedback! Not pissed off anymore, the light bulb went on!!!  It makes perfect sense now!

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