Links suddenly leading to German WordPress page

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  shoreacres · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 12:25 am

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  I just received an email from a reader. Every link on my site that references the Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, whether in my side bar or in the text of posts, now leads to a page in German, with the WordPress format and logo.

  When I went to google to try to get to desdecuba dot com where she posts, all google searches for her Generacion Y blog also took me to the same WordPress page in German.

  I haven’t a CLUE how to begin sorting this one out. I’ve done all I know – signing out, doing the cookie dance, etc.
  But nothing helps.

  I can’t even find a Spanish version through google. Eveything lands on that German page.

  HELP!

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  shoreacres · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 12:28 am

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  Here is one of the posts where the links suddenly are not working. One is found in paragraph four of the text.

  http://shoreacres.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/a-prayer-for-yoani-sanchez/

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  shoreacres · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 12:41 am

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  I can get to the Spanish version of dedecuba by clicking this link: http://www.desdecuba.com/. However, when I click on the sidebar link for Generacion Y there, I am right back to the WordPress German page.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 12:42 am

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  It’s not anything you are doing wrong – it something on their end. I went to this page http://desdecuba.com/ and clicked on the link for the blog you are trying to connect to and got the same error for every blog in that category (Zona Blogger) Somebody needs to notify the web portal of the issue.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Dec 23, 2008 at 12:45 am

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  Hi,

  Regarding pages like this:

  http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony/

  desdecuba.com is not hosted by WordPress.com. They are running WordPress on their own server. Something is wrong with their server. They need to fix it. What you’re seeing there is a WordPress error message in German, not a German WordPress.com site.

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  shoreacres · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 12:52 am

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  Ah. I had just figured out that it was an error message.

  Now, we’ve bumped up against my ignorance. How do I determine what their web portal is so that I can contact it (them)? Would a contact with desdecuba . com do the trick?

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  tellyworth · Staff · Dec 23, 2008 at 1:13 am

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  Contacting desdecuba.com sounds like the first step, yes.

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  shoreacres · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 1:15 am

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  OK. I think I’ve found the way to get the information about the problem to the right people. Thanks, Vivian and tellyworth.