When I follow 'clicks' off my blog I see they lead to 'porn' sites and others
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When going through my site sites I had a look at the clicks section.
Seeing URLs I did not recognise and clicked on them to see where it would take me.
I was horrified to discover the link destinations.
I do not want this linked with my blog.
How can I correct this?HELP!
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Hi there,
I can see quite a few sites connected to your account. What sites are unfamiliar? I checked them all and did not see any questionable content on any of them.
One way to remove the site from your account is to delete them. If you want to permanently delete your site, please follow this guide:
Please read the warnings and advice before deleting a site, as after 30 days we purge the site entirely and we can’t revert a site deletion for any reason.
If you want to hide your site instead, you can use the following guide to make your site private so only you and other members of the site can view it when logged in:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/For the Jetpack site, if you want to disconnect that site, you can follow the instructions here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/disconnect-jetpack-sites/
Thanks,
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When going through my site sites I had a look at the clicks section
Hi there, Are you referring to the links that appear in your Stat’s Clicks page on allanimemag.wordpress.com? Is this something that just started recently? It might be that someone who visited your site has malware installed in their a browser that displays such links rather than those links appearing on your site.
Is there any chance these questionable clicks are attached to the Gravatars in your Likes or the Anime Community widget? (Just trying to eliminate possible spam there.)
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Hiya,
Yes, it just started today, along with a sudden boost in visits being directed to my blog from google > in excess of 4 000.
I removed the widgets at the bottom for a few hours and it has made no changes.
The clicks off my blog are still going to porn sites and other dodgy sites.
Is there any way to do a security check? Or a way to fix the current problem? -
staff-doublebassd it’s not the sites linked to my account.
I can see which links take people off the blog, like whether they are downloading a PDF calendar from my Google drive or if they go to my Facebook etc. It is at that part of Jet Pack’s stat and info that I see the unknown links and when I clicked on those links to see what they were I discovered some were porn sites. I don’t know where these links are on my blog at all.The sudden views on my blog are all on my home page, none are going into the posts on my page. The views are also mainly coming from India and American Samoa which I have never really had views from before.
I find the sudden rise in views and the porn site clicks to have all started at the exact same time – today. I find it suspicious and wonder if perhaps the security on the blog needs checking, or if it is something else. Either way, I really want it to be corrected as soon as possible.
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Yes, this definitely appears to be Click Spam of some sort. It’s like comment spam, these bots (or people with infected browsers) visit your site, and the browser leaves that invalid click record.
We’re identifying new bots to ignore in the stats all the time, so this should stop shortly, but like any kind of spam, it may always happen again.
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Is there any way I can guard against it?
Also, would you like me to send you the URL’s that are part of the spam? -
would you like me to send you the URL’s that are part of the spam?
We can access your stats so there’s no need for that, thank you!
There’s nothing you can really to do avoid that but, at the same time, you don’t need to worry that your site will be linked to those pages in any way. Those links are not displayed anywhere on your site. Have a look at this short article about referrer spam, it explains well the mechanism.
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