How can I find a comment that Contains a given Link?

zendodeb · Member · Mar 5, 2020 at 11:28 pm
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At least I assume it has to be a comment.

There is a link – which is actually the “most popular referral” from my blog today that seems to be spam.

A search on the url doesn’t turn up a comment. There is no comment in the Spam folder that had been recently deleted to account for it.

That’s a snip for the referral.

The link itself – you can find it if you care is definitely not something I would link to.

So the question is. How do I find the source of this link and delete it from my blog?

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musicdoc1 · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 2:05 am
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Hi,

I assume it has to be a comment.

A referrer view indicates that someone clicked on a link to your site somewhere outside your site. So referrer links are external to your site, and you find the source of a referrer link in comments or elsewhere on your site.

I’ll call for staff attention. Staff will respond here and might be able to tell you whether the link is referrer spam in this case.
musicdoc1 · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 2:09 am
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Correction: “and you won’t find the source of a referrer link in comments or elsewhere on your site.”
staff-zinnia · Staff · Mar 6, 2020 at 2:16 am
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There are no blocked referrers on the site indicated.
zendodeb · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 3:57 am
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It is definitely spam. It is showing up in the outbound clicks from my site. It is not a link that I included.

I need to find the comment that is referring people to that site so that I can delete the comment/mark it as spam.
zendodeb · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 3:58 am
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Look at the image provided.
musicdoc1 · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 5:55 am
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“Look at the image provided”

Thanks. That’s in the Clicks section of your stats. Where do you find that described as the “most popular referral” for the day? Anyway, despite being under Clicks it might be an example of the type of referrer spam described by @kokkieh in the topic Advertising links in Clicks? that I started back in January. If so, then you won’t find the link anywhere on the site. Again, I’ll hand the ball off to Staff for a definitive explanation.
musicdoc1 · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 6:07 am
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How can I find a comment that Contains a given Link?

You can do a keyword search of all comments on the site in the WP-Admin interface here: https://wheelgun.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php.
zendodeb · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 1:25 pm
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That was the first thing I tried. None is listed under approved. None is listed in the Spam folder.
zendodeb · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 1:27 pm
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it might be an example of the type of referrer spam described by @kokkieh in the topic Advertising links in Clicks? that I started back in January. If so, then you won’t find the link anywhere on the site

OK That explains it.

Thank you .
musicdoc1 · Member · Mar 6, 2020 at 5:03 pm
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You’re welcome. :-)

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