Hi Rosie,
If you have a raw link in what you're copying and pasting then you'll get an alert. In that case, you can use this UBB code -
or you can use the little world button at the top of the message screen.
A raw link looks something like this
http://www.bellaonline.com/site/contestsandsweepstakes so I used the url tags on each side of the link to make it appear in the forum without the alert. I'm sorry if I'm not explaining well. I'm not a programmer but I do understand a little coding. The reason that Lisa Shea, the owner of the site, programmed the forums this way is because occasionally we have a problem with spammers and this helps cut down on that.