Do you accept comments with URLs?
97- ryankett
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When people write something like 'Great Hub' but their name provides them with a backlink, do you accept these?
We wouldnt be getting anything out of this would we? This wouldnt help me at all?
I just had somebody leave a comment.... saying nothing but "Great hub" on 4 of my facebook hubs. His name linked to his site about facebook.
I decided to reject, as it was obvious spamming, would you have rejected these?
97- Mark Knowles
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Delete them. If it adds nothing to the page other than a few words, I delete them - from hubbers as well as outside comments.
91- sunforged
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not only would i delete them, i would mark them as spam
92- Daniel Carter
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Agree with Mark and sunforged.
96- rebekahELLE
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ryankett wrote:
When people write something like 'Great Hub' but their name provides them with a backlink, do you accept these?
We wouldnt be getting anything out of this would we? This wouldnt help me at all?
I just had somebody leave a comment.... saying nothing but "Great hub" on 4 of my facebook hubs. His name linked to his site about facebook.
I decided to reject, as it was obvious spamming, would you have rejected these?I received a few of those and deleted them.
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- ryankett
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Thanks everybody....
Cool, I deleted them all. I have allowed a few to slip through the net in the past... but if they cant be bothered to help me out with a few decent lines for the google bots then I wont help them out with the backlink
95- kirstenblog
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I don't blame you for deleting those comments. I have no problem with someone back linking while making a comment but at least they could comment 'great hub on -one of my keywords here-'. If they can at least contribute a keyword it would be a bonus for both of us and thats something at least.
99- Lisa HW
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If someone puts a link to a site other than their own that offers real information (like a link to the March of Dimes on a Hub about premature babies), I appreciate that. I just don't think it's good etiquette, though, for anyone to post their own links on a Hub. Even when they add a good-length comment along with their own link, somehow it just seems to me as if the self-promoting motive was the main thing, not the subject of my Hub; and it does kind of rub me the wrong the way. I always feel unfriendly denying comments with links; but I don't put them on other people's Hubs, and it just strikes me as kind of pushy.
91- Jeffrey Neal
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I'm in the same boat with everyone here. At least make an attempt to say something relevant. I'll keep the link if their comment at least says something about my topic.
99- cosette
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ryankett wrote:
When people write something like 'Great Hub' but their name provides them with a backlink, do you accept these?
NO!
i get those all the time and frankly find them tacky and self-promoting. (what's worse is when they post it in fan mail).In some way there is sense in your words, Kirsten, but nevertheless, I always delete them.
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- rebekahELLE
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I remember someone mentioning in a thread similar to this that if the link is good, and relates to the hub and the person was being well-meaning, that sometimes it could be included as an additional link in the links capsule.
In your instance, I would delete the comment.
Otherwise, it depends on who, why and what.
Sometimes the comment left is wonderful, but leads to a 'bad neighborhood'. These I delete.
Sometimes an okay comment is left by someone who means what they say, and is linked to their blog. That's fine by me, as long as the comment involved thought.- 91
- Jeffrey Neal
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Ivorwen wrote:
Sometimes the comment left is wonderful, but leads to a 'bad neighborhood'. These I delete.
Excellent point here for anyone trying to ensure their organic ranking in google. The big G hates bad neighborhoods: sites that promote or are on the fringes of what they disallow in their adsense TOS.
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- cosette
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sunforged wrote:
not only would i delete them, i would mark them as spam
hey i don't feel so bad now for clicking that Spam button!
(that is, after all, exactly what it is...) 
95- thranax
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I try to never accept URLs but rarely I do because I like having the comment they said.
~thranax~
84- spartanking1978
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Good topic...Personally, I like to leave comments. So I usually approve a comment based on what I deem to be relevant content. Initially, I posted a few links that where irrelevant; honestly, who has not done so? Now, after I got a feel of the environment, I realize that irrelevant content is severely penalized and most hub authors in general look down on it.
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- Lisa HW
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spartanking, it's understandable that people don't realize it can be "an issue" with Hubbers. Most places online that tell people how to get traffic to their stuff tell people, "Post a link on someone's blog" (or that kind of thing). It's no surprise that so many people think it's "what's done" everywhere, including HubPages. It's kind of funny, but every so often someone new will go to a "zillion" Hubs and post something like, "Good Hub. Now read mine."
It can just look kind of tacky and unprofessional. 
92- Dale Mazurek
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if the comment left is a good one I will take a look at the site it is linking to.
If the site doesnt go against what I do on the internet then sometimes I will let the link go.
However most times the comment is an obvious ploy and I dont allow them.
97- Marisa Wright
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spartanking1978 wrote:
Initially, I posted a few links that where irrelevant; honestly, who has not done so?
I certainly haven't and I bet there aren't as many spammers here as you think.
I rarely bother checking where the link in the name goes - but I delete comments which are just "good hub!" anyway. And I certainly delete comments which have a link in the text, unless it contributes something meaningful to my Hub.
