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macmanx on "Cancelled Premium Upgrade which cancelled Customization— one paid month left"

macmanx — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:23:32 +0000

You're welcome!

bluebirdblvd on "Cancelled Premium Upgrade which cancelled Customization— one paid month left"

bluebirdblvd — Wed, 01 May 2013 00:19:06 +0000

Thank you, MM! Really, really, really, really, really appreciate it!

macmanx on "Cancelled Premium Upgrade which cancelled Customization— one paid month left"

macmanx — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:47:40 +0000

Sorry about that!

You're all fixed up now. :)

bluebirdblvd on "Cancelled Premium Upgrade which cancelled Customization— one paid month left"

bluebirdblvd — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:15:44 +0000

Dear WP Staff,

WHOOPS! Correction: I should have four months left on my original Custom Design upgrade— I paid for it on September 22, 2012.

I have a reference number which I can give you privately if you need to double-check my information.

Thanks,

Courtenay B.

bluebirdblvd on "Cancelled Premium Upgrade which cancelled Customization— one paid month left"

bluebirdblvd — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:09:10 +0000

Dear WP Staff,

Just to underscore this question: I am not asking about the premium upgrade that I just cancelled.

I am asking about the one-year customization upgrade that I paid for separately last spring, which should still be entirely active for at least another month, possibly two before I have to renew it.

So to recap: The one year customization upgrade, which I paid for separately last summer, and should still be active right now, disappeared when I cancelled the premium upgrade.

Thanks!

Courtenay B.

bluebirdblvd on "Cancelled Premium Upgrade which cancelled Customization— one paid month left"

bluebirdblvd — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:22:03 +0000

Hey WP Staff!

I decided to cancel the premium upgrade because it doesn't serve my purpose at this time. My domain name renewal is still intact.

However, the Customization upgrade that I bought a year ago, still has time left on it. BUT! It has disappeared because I cancelled the Premium Upgrade. Can you fix this please?

Thanks,

Courtenay Bluebird

thistimethisspace on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

thistimethisspace — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:39:38 +0000

More search results here http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/whats-redirect-ad-feeds?replies=6

thistimethisspace on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

thistimethisspace — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:37:48 +0000

Searching works wonders folks: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/referrer-redirectad-feeds?replies=6

lynnfam on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

lynnfam — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:34:41 +0000

I'm having the same issue - has anyone figured out what it is?

pharmama on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

pharmama — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:27:21 +0000

The same thing is happening with my blog as well.
At the moment I get over 100 hits via them as "Referrer". All of them from links that differ slightly. Trying to click on them just brings one to an empty page.
Very peculiar.

bluebirdblvd on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

bluebirdblvd — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:08:09 +0000

Dangit, I didn't think about that link going active. Can one of the moderators disable it? I'm not trying to encourage SPAM, I promise.

Sorry about that!

bluebirdblvd on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

bluebirdblvd — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:06:18 +0000

Nothing is coming up? I've done first lines on my last five posts, and (thankfully) it's all me. I also spot-checked popular back posts from the last seven days— nothing. Not a single hint of anything.

I checked the most recent "Redirect Ad Feed" referral and it lead to this site:

[edit - removed link]

Nothing of mine on there.

I guess the more likely culprit is that "Redirect" is spam-linking? What, besides not clicking it, should I do about that phenomenon? And you're experiencing it too?

bluebirdblvd on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

bluebirdblvd — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:25:26 +0000

Thank you, Raincoaster! Normally, if it's a one-time pass-through, I haven't bothered with it. (Knock wood.) Now I'm wondering if I should be checking every single time. Have I done myself and others a disservice?

I'm a professional writer with good credentials; I've written for pay since I turned 20. I would go ballistic if someone tried made money off of my writing without a prearranged payment, and there's no way in heck I'd sell writing to piece-of-filth splogs. So, there's that.

"Redirect Ad Feeds" has shown up as a referrer 17 times in 30 days. It took me three weeks to catch on.

The few times in the last week when I (reluctantly) clicked a link — it lead to an empty page. That's what started to really freak me out.

"Redirect" hasn't sent me any spam at all. All I'm getting are these creepy referrals, with a different suffix each time. And from the spot-checks I did, I assume they all lead to a blank page. Each referral is from a different post, and not necessarily a recent one. Periodically, I try opening up old posts to new readers, but end up closing them again due to a periodic run of spam.

This is different though. No spam. Creepy referrals.

Thank you for the clear instructions and the link. I'm going to go and check right now and find out whether I'm being content scraped.

Dang, and double-dang.

Thanks so much— Courtenay Bluebird.

raincoaster on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

raincoaster — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:44:51 +0000

I'm seeing the same thing. It's probably spam linking hoping that you'll click to see it, OR it could be a splog scraping your content and posting a link to you in hope you'll feel "grateful." To see if that's what it is, Google the first sentence of each of your recent posts; if they show up on another blog, take action in accordance with the recommendations at http://stolen.wordpress.com

bluebirdblvd on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

bluebirdblvd — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:33:33 +0000

So, to clarify, timethief and auxclass — These are not clicks, they are referrers.

And thank you so much in advance for asking questions that should help me start sorting this out. (I'm freaking out a little bit here.)

bluebirdblvd on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

bluebirdblvd — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:30:43 +0000

These are showing up under referrers.

When I click on the link in my referral panel, I get a blank webpage and this:

http://redirect.xmladfeed.com/filtered.html

But if I go to my referral page, I find entries like this underneath the header of redirect.ad.feeds.com/:

[Staff edit - removed link as it was being marked as spam]

Sorry for the long link!

I do have WordAds. Is that what these are? Why would they show up as referrers?

timethief on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

timethief — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:29:53 +0000

Agreed. :)

auxclass on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

auxclass — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:25:48 +0000

The ads would show I think in the clicks section - we will just need to wait to see which box they see the info in.

timethief on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

timethief — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:21:53 +0000

@auxclass
FWIW I answered my own question above. I know this blog and it does not have a No-Ads upgrade.

auxclass on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

auxclass — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:19:48 +0000

I've been getting some strange referrals that all seem to be coming from this link

Does that mean you are seeing referrals in where you get traffic from into your blog?

That would be in the referrals section of your blog stats.

timethief on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

timethief — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:15:14 +0000

Hi there,
Do you have a No-Ads upgrade on that blog?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/

bluebirdblvd on "Has my blog been hijacked?"

bluebirdblvd — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:13:23 +0000

In the last three weeks, I've been getting some strange referrals that all seem to be coming from this link (link grouping): redirect.ad-feeds.com.

All of them have different suffixes (?) that look like links to splogs.

Has my blog been hijacked in some way?

I know I'm probably not using the right terminology, but I am entirely new to this problem.

As you might have guessed from the previous statement, I know very little about how this works or what to do about it.

Could someone help me figure out how to report this in order to make this stop? What else do I need to do to stop this now, and to keep it from happening elsewhere?

Thanking you in advance,

Courtenay Bluebird.