Hi everyone!

I would really appreciate your advice with this. Today I noticed a fair amount of traffic coming from a website I’d never heard of or visited while checking my analytics. I recognized a familiar commentluv link to a dental implant business that was spamming me big time (then I installed GASP–thanks Kristi). I clicked on the name of the commenter, and sure enough my website was linked…

I kindly asked the website owner to remove this person’s comment and suggested he check his analytics and named the country this spammer spams from.

Any other suggestions for protecting my identity and the integrity of my website.

Thanks so much .

@kristi-hines Thanks for the feedback! I don’t think this person is using my website b/c I’m well known, but maybe they have shrink fantasies…(I’m a psychotherapist).

I have a Google Alert, but this person uses “Julie” as their name, but enters my website. Found another spammed comment for another site this morning–ugh!

I will contact the business and let them know.

I appreciate your input Kristi .

@lindaesposito One thing you can do is set up this RSS feed in your RSS reader.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&q=link:http://yourdomain.com/&tbm=blg&tbs=sbd:1&output=rss
Just change yourdomain.com to your website domain.  This should alert you to any new links back to your website on blogs which should also include comment links.  

@kristi-hines Thanks for this RSS suggestion–willl do.

Whew! Spent the better part of the morning asking unknown bloggers to please delete this comment or at least the entered email (mine).

FYI, although you probably already know this. I contacted my host company and they thought the likely culprit was the WP versions/plugins which weren’t updated by me. According to the “techie” spammers love to crack the codes of older plugins.

It’s always something, right?

Thanks again for your expertise Kristi–much appreciated .