Incorrect violation warning

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   HubChiefposted 11 years ago

   One of my most popular hub is showing incorrect warnings " more than two links to single domain" . I can not specifically understand which links are causing the violation? With all truth for help, I have references to official websites that helped me. I am not associated to these sites by any means. Can huboages team help understand which links are violations?

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      blake4dposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I am suddenly having the same problem with several hubs that showed no such warning before. I posted a forum post about it today too.

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   innersmiffposted 11 years ago

   Yeah got the same thing on one of my hubs.

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   rmcrayneposted 11 years ago

   As per the original post here, the warning may have indeed been "incorrect".  My post on this thread my help:
   
   http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/97118

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   psycheskinnerposted 11 years ago

   To see what link is being flagged go to the right column and click on the question mark.

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   Sinea Piesposted 11 years ago

   I am also running into the same problem. All four hubs with the little red skull did have more than 2 links from the same source but I corrected them last evening.  The skulls are still there.
   
   Question: do more than two links from my own hub pages posts count?  Each one is a different post but I am the author.

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      blake4dposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      On the original discussion, some people are saying yes, but it is not anything that I have yet verified with an admin or anyone up in the staff.

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   Randy Godwinposted 11 years ago

   I think it's merely a glitch, but unfortunately staff does not think it's worthy of addressing at this time.  I think they are all asleep or either mentoring newbies in the new Apprenticeship program now.
   
                                            

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      Shanna11posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Or maybe you should stop making  assumptions and just give the staff some time to figure things out? YOU try running a website of this magnitude. I certainly wouldn't want to try, even if I had twice the staff size Hubpages has now!

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         Randy Godwinposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         I suppose it's too much trouble to at least type out a few words to reassure lots of folks who are concerned about this crazy stuff, right?  At least to say they are on it or it is a glitch.  They have time to post the silly hubnugget stuff, why not take a minute or two to at least let folks know they are looking at it.  This has a lot of folks concerned here, Shanna.  Common courtesy seems to be sorely lacking from staff these days. 
         
         But then, you haven't been here long enough to know the difference, I suppose.
         
                                                    

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            Shanna11posted 11 years agoin reply to this

            No, I haven't. Speaking from experience on the wide variety (hundred +) of websites I use though, most don't respond to glitches regularly or let the users know. If they did, they'd be making notes to the users ever five minutes.
            
            Maybe they haven't figured out the cause themselves. You don't have a concrete answer as to why they haven't responded to this problem, so it's best to not make assumptions. You know what they say about people who assume!

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               Randy Godwinposted 11 years agoin reply to this

               Aren't you assuming this is my assumption? 
               
               
                                                

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                  Shanna11posted 11 years agoin reply to this

                  Are you assuming my assumption about your assumption was actually an assumption?

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                     Randy Godwinposted 11 years agoin reply to this

                     Are you calling me an asp hole?
                     
                                                            

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                        Shanna11posted 11 years agoin reply to this

                        What-- me? NEVER!
                        
                        
                        ....are you assuming that's what I'm calling you?

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                           CMHypnoposted 11 years agoin reply to this

                           Go on Shanna - you know he'd like it!

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                              Randy Godwinposted 11 years agoin reply to this

                              Aren't you assuming that I......
                              
                              
                                                                         

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                              Shanna11posted 11 years agoin reply to this

                              Hahaha, I know.... he's incorrigible! It's better than doing my econ homework though....

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   Lwelchposted 11 years ago

   same here - logged on and hubs that have been fine for years suddenly have violations all over the place.  I really hope it is a glitch and not a change in policies!

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      Jason Marovichposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Not seeing any red skulls, but I have at least one hub in violation when I view the hub itself.  The outbound links are to many different pages within one major site.

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   Mark Ewbieposted 11 years ago

   Same here - loads of violations - more than two links to a single domain.  I checked one and I have two Amazon ads and my own pictures where the source points to my profile.  But I do that on all my pages.
   
   NO LINKS AT ALL!!!
   
   Please help, HP...
   
   edit: And that skull frightened me half to death.

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   Greekgeekposted 11 years ago

   I've got the red skulls all over the place too; apparently linking to NASA or the USGS on educational hubs about astronomy and geology is now verboten.
   
   In some cases, the count of "overly promotional" links seems to be doubled. I have a suspicion that the new obligatory slideshows using our images are counting image credit links TWICE, once for the slideshow (which I didn't even want;  I want photos to be viewed in context) and once on the actual hub.

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    Jason Menayanposted 11 years ago

    It's a bug. Please ignore the red skulls for now.

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       Mark Ewbieposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Phew, and thanks.
       
       Now, can you do anything about my traffic?

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          Jason Menayanposted 11 years agoin reply to this

          I'm not God, Mark.

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             psycheskinnerposted 11 years agoin reply to this

             I am going to have to reassess my entire world view now.

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                Shanna11posted 11 years agoin reply to this

                I know.... what am I going to tell all the "Followers of Jason" now?! I'm going to lose my deposit on that lovely chapel I'd rented....

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       blake4dposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Wait, so since my hub never said that it was in violation across the top of the page, I only have the skulls, I changed my links for no reason. I didn't think that I made that error. Or am I mistaken, if you do not get the warning...I should ignore the skulls? Right Jason

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          Jason Menayanposted 11 years agoin reply to this

          If you really do have 2 or fewer links to any domain, but are still getting the warning, then I'd attribute it to the bug (which is going to get fixed).

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             blake4dposted 11 years agoin reply to this

             Thanx JM. There were two other hubs that the 2 links rule was an obvious problem. I am revising and or removing them now. But the one I was refering too, I removed every single hyperlink. It still has the glowing red skull, but it never gave me the signal in the bar above my saved hub with any violation notice. Appreciate the info about the bug. Keep on Hubbing.

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       Pamela N Redposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       I wondered about that with so many violations all at once.

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       Trish_Mposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Oh, good!
       I can stop worrying about them ~ and trying to put them all right

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    Randy Godwinposted 11 years ago

    There you go, it only took 12+ hours and numerous threads. 
    
    
                                     

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       Shanna11posted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Picky picky picky.

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    Randy Godwinposted 11 years ago

    I wonder how many people have unnecessarily deleted their links by now.  I only had one hub with 2 links to a state site which I deleted to get rid of the skull, but I'll bet others have been busy trying to do so for no good reason.  Ah well, better late than.....!
    
                                         

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       Healthy Pursuitsposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       I was in "my account", opened Hub Violations, then opened one of the hubs and read the warning. It said that if the links are not promotional, nothing else needs to be done. I have two hubs with skulls now. All of my problem links are images. In one hub, all of the images are USDA. So it was nothing to worry about.

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    JKennyposted 11 years ago

    Yep, I had the red skulls too, where there were none before. I checked the hubs and the links. I did see the notice 'that if they are not overly promotional, then you need not take action.' I actually deleted the links just to be on the safe side.

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    cclitgirlposted 11 years ago

    Here's a sort of blessing in disguise: after going to any hubs with violations and tweaking them a bit, well whaddya know, the pageviews went up. 

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       Jason Marovichposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Honestly, I experience the same thing with Google - the more active I am on my account, the more views they send my way.  I haven't been here long enough, nor have I published enough to consider it a sample to refer to others, but, for me anyway, if I'm active, I get views.  (not referring to in house views).
       
       EDIT:  active on my hubs, I should point out, not active on forums, etc.

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       Sinea Piesposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Good for you!

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    libby101aposted 11 years ago

    I have 18 of my hubs that are showing violations that were up and running for several months with no issues. Now I keep fixing and submitting... but they keep sending them back unpublished with the same violations! Ugg it's getting very frustrating!

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       Jason Marovichposted 11 years agoin reply to this

       libby, did you click the 'check for violations' button on your accounts page?  Are you sending too many outbound links to your personal blog or website?  Or someone else's?  Look at your outbound links and keep them to a minimum, especially when being sent to a low rank website.

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