mystery links in clicks stats

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  kerryoncanlit · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 2:57 am

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  My stats page is showing clicks on links on my blog that do not exist on my blog? What’s going on?

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 3:08 am

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  This might help:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/regarding-referrer-spam?replies=1

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  airodyssey · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 3:13 am

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  Either that or it’s advertisements placed by WordPress.com that your visitors clicked on:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/

  (~~auxclass)

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  auxclass · Member · Aug 10, 2011 at 3:17 am

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  ~~airodyssey – good catch – I also had a few odd links that were clicked on my site – I have the no ads upgrade but they were “possibly related posts” (not really related as it turned out) – the auto generated links thing could use a bit of fine tuning