Unwanted Link

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  ecliptoid · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:31 pm

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  Hiya! Every time I update or publish a new post or page, this link is automatically added to the bottom of the text:

  http://gooogle-analytics.com/show_ads.html

  I don’t want it there. I don’t know how or why it appears. If I delete it and hit “Update,” it just comes back. What is going on and how can I fix it?

  Many thanks,
  Zach

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:33 pm

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  This is the result of clicking your username:

  ecliptoid.wordpress.com is no longer available.
  The authors have deleted this blog.

  Please provide an active URL starting with http:// to the blog you see this on.

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  ecliptoid · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:35 pm

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  Whoops! Sorry. Here’s the blog:

  http://tallgrasskills.wordpress.com

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:40 pm

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  I see that link at the bottom of the “Latest” post on your blog. Edit that post and go into the HTML editor and delete the code for that link. Then click “update” and report to us what the result is.

  If you have been copying and pasting text from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here so you know how to do this correctly in the future. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

  Also go to Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.”

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:41 pm

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  Where exactly are you seeing that link? In the editor, in the source code?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:43 pm

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  Where exactly are you seeing that link? In the editor, in the source code?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:46 pm

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  @thesacredpath
  I see it in the post itself at the very bottom. It’s not an active link.

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  ecliptoid · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:47 pm

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  timethief: removing the code has worked on the “Latest” page, I’ll keep doing it to the several other posts that are effected. I’ll adjust the settings and publish a dummy post to see if it works.

  thesacredpath: In the editor.

  I’ll reply again in a minute with results.

  Thank you!
  Zach

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:48 pm

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  Interesting. I’m not getting that in the editor on my blog here.

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  ecliptoid · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:56 pm

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  timethief: I’ve adjusted the settings as you suggested. Unfortunately, upon publication of my dummy post, the dreaded link still appeared at the bottom. At least now I know how to get rid of it, and thank you for that, but is there any other safeguard against unwanted code?

  Thank you!
  Zach

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 5:58 pm

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  Have you been copying and pasting text from elsewhere into your posts?

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  ecliptoid · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 6:01 pm

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  The only copying and pasting I do is when I copy one of my own posts. I do this so I don’t have to retype the navigation links underneath the comics.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 6:01 pm

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  Thanks for you answer. I have flagged this thread for Staff attention.

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  ecliptoid · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 6:03 pm

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  Thank you so much.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2011 at 6:09 pm

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  You’re welcome and I certainly will be bookmarking this thread because I want to know the answer to where that code is coming from, given the fact we are told we cannot use blogger initiated Google Analytics on our free hosted blogs here at WordPress.com.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 27, 2011 at 11:40 pm

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  That’s definitely the first time I’ve heard of this, and we don’t allow Analytics code on blogs here, so that’s rather fishy.

  I’d almost hazard to guess that your browser is adding this. Would you mind trying Chrome or Firefox (whichever one you aren’t using)?

  http://www.google.com/chrome

  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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  ecliptoid · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 7:16 am

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  macmanx: I think you may be right. I installed Chrome and published another dummy post. No unwanted link. How can Firefox add things to my posts?

  Thanks,
  Zach

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 28, 2011 at 7:20 am

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  There’s probably an add-on inserting it. Try disabling all of your add-ons to see if that makes a difference.

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  ecliptoid · Member · Nov 28, 2011 at 10:57 pm

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  I disabled all of my add-ons; no luck.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Nov 28, 2011 at 11:02 pm

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  Maybe try clearing your cache and cookies on Firefox?

  http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050