warning Cathy Smith

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   Kyrianaposted 14 years ago

   I was approving comments for my posts and there was a post from 'Cathy Smith' the name or nick could be clicked so I clicked to view her profile and instead of a profile I ended up on the landing page for another site.
   
   This was her comment:
   
   Cathy Smith 7 hours ago
   great & amazing site I love this site alot.
   softtek
   
   softtek is where you end up if you click her name. I searched hubbers for Cathy Smith and there is no one by that nick. I'm not approving her comment.
   
   I wanted to let you know so if you have a comment from her, you might check and see if her nick takes you off HubPages.
   
   Thanks

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   KCC Big Countryposted 14 years ago

   That's very common.  She's simply trying to gain a backlink to her site.  You're perfectly within your rights to delete the comment and report it as spam.  That's what I do.

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      Kyrianaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks KCC,
      
      That was the first time I've clicked a hubber's nick and ended up somewhere else.

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         thranaxposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         The good news is if there is a link going outside in comments its NoFollow, they arent really getting any Juice for it. Most commenters have a website and are just trying to promote it. It is essentially designed to be able to get in contact with the commenter (but has be adapted for SEO.)
         
         I seen some comments to simple things like Twitter Pages.
         
         ~thranax~

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            sofsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Kyriana thanx for bring this up most of us newbies will not know such things and may even respond and encourage such spam.
            Kcc thanks for  the useful information.

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               Kyrianaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               sofs,
               I didn't know anything about it. I learn more here every day.

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            Kyrianaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Thanks for the information. That's not something that would have occurred to me to do.

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   Lily Roseposted 14 years ago

   Yeah, I get this a lot, too.  I always delete them because I don't want my readers leaving to go to another sight if I can help it...

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   Sweetsusiegposted 14 years ago

   Yes, thanks for posting this.  I would not have known what to do should it have happened to me.  Now I know.

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   Ivorwenposted 14 years ago

   If it is a good comment, I leave it, as long as the site it is linked to is reputable.  I do not see any problem with people leaving a useful link in their name, along with a useful comment.

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   Whitney05posted 14 years ago

   She's just trying to gain a backlink. Nothing out of the ordinary. I delete most like this, as in most cases  the link is not relevant to the hub, even if the comment is.
   
   Clogging up forums with this

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