Weird links have suddenly appeared, but I have no spam

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  streamsandforests · Member · Feb 2, 2009 at 8:48 pm

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  My blog stats are suddenly showing that someone has clicked on some links on my site to a WordPress blog for gay African-Americans. I am quite unfamiliar with this other blog and I have not put in any links to it myself. I can’t find where these links even are on my blog that someone has clicked on. There is nothing in my spam queue. Ideas, anyone?

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

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  salomey5 · Member · Feb 2, 2009 at 9:58 pm

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  I had a similar problem with links for teen porn (how great is that?!) on my blog a few months ago, and again a couple of weeks ago.

  Could be a link in your “related posts” maybe?

  What I was told when it happened to me, was that if the link contains questionable material, which was my case, just report it to staff.
  I did that and shortly afterwards, I got notified that the blog had been deleted.

  You may also want to check your comments. Twice, someone posted a “X-large boobs” YouTube video in my comments. I marked it at spam and it stopped after that.

  If you can’t find where that link comes from, I suggest you contact support. They’ve been very helpful with me.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 2, 2009 at 10:37 pm

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  Sometimes those links come from the Adsense that WP occasionally runs on our blogs. In that case you’ll never see the links and be unable to trace them.

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  streamsandforests · Member · Feb 2, 2009 at 11:07 pm

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  Thanks for your ideas. I think maybe it’s the Adsense that’s causing it. I’ve looked through my comments and I don’t think there’s anything there, and it’s not the “possibly related posts” as far as I can figure out.

  I’m going to just wait and see if it happens again, but hope it’s just a nonrecurring glitch.