adverts appearing on my blog despite my "no ads" upgrade
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Hi, I have just noticed that one of my readers clicked this link
http://download.guffins.com/index.jhtml?partner=YJxdm257&sub_id=168413&theme=english0
from my blog.Since this is a blog about meditation I am pretty sure I have not included this link in any of my texts. Also I have paid for not having any adverts on my blog. Could you please check out what has happened?
I have included print screen of “clicks” in case it helps you solve the problem :( It is in my library as “adcash”
Thank you!
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Those aren’t actually “ads” necessarily, or at the very least, they aren’t from us.
This is actually a type of spam, and while not as popular as Comment or Email spam, Click (and also Referrer) spam is something you’ll encounter with any website.
When a browser clicks a link to go elsewhere, our stats record the destination of that click in your Click stats. Unfortunately, there are many browser extensions and add-ons (as well as even more nefarious viruses) which can falsify the click record, leaving behind their “spam” Click record instead. The same is true for spam Referrers (where a Referrer is the site a visitor came from).
This isn’t any infection on your own computer, and it’s not an ad from us, it’s just an infected visitor who is unaware that they’re leaving a false trail as they go about their daily browsing.
With that said, we are doing our best to filter out spam Clicks and Referrers, but like with Comment and Email spam, sometimes a few make it through.
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Oh thank you so much. I got slightly worried. Unfortunately I am not well versed in IT lingo so would like to make sure I understood you correctly and my relief is well placed, if it is OK?
What is most important to me is that there is no ad or weird link on my blog that my readers can click. And if I understood you correctly – there are none and none of my readers can see anything not put in by me or the commenters approved by me…?
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