ad confusion

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  weirdscience · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 9:39 pm

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  this link was clicked on my site: http://immaterialsn.wordpress.com/

  it’s a wordpress.com blog…how is it appearing? i don’t understand how it could be an ad?

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  weirdscience · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 9:40 pm

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  the link itself says wordpress.com/next but it directs to that site above. -confuses-

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  weirdscience · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 9:54 pm

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  even weirder..now if i click that link it redirects to this blog http://intuitivemuslima.wordpress.com/

  i’ve never seen anything like this before :Z

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  options · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 10:07 pm

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  I find it quite reasonable and intuitive: where else immaterialsn could be redirected to but intuitivemuslima?

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  weirdscience · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 10:11 pm

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  o_O

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 11:11 pm

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  Was it in an adsense ad on your site? Maybe they simply bought ad space from Google. That’s not against the ToS.

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  judyb12 · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 11:14 pm

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  the link itself says wordpress.com/next

  I think this is the key. Someone was clicking through using the arrow button on their admin bar at the top of the screen. Anytime you see the wordpress.com/next that’s what it means. They were just surfing for blogs randomly. When you click it, you get a different random blog.

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  weirdscience · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 11:23 pm

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  raincoaster: I logged out and went back in through a google search to see if it was an ad, but didn’t see anything (unless it had disappeared by that time)

  judyb12: that makes sense..thanks to both you and raincoaster for the info :)

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  judyb12 · Member · Jul 19, 2007 at 11:24 pm

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  no problem :)