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Yesterday, I even texted a friend to check out my website just to see if they were being redirected to another URL because I was experiencing this when I open my sites using my computer. I knew this was a javascript error but I couldn’t pinpoint at first what ad script was messing with my sites. Since I removed Chitika codes in my sites (only Google adsense and Widgetbucks codes remain), my intuition dictated that Widgetbucks codes or some embedded scripts within posts (for Socialspark) were responsible for this redirection. By the way, my sites were redirected to two other sites in an endless loop (www.vivo7.com and www.partners.dmoglobal.com).
I first checked my posts for Socialspark and looked for the keywords “vivo7″ and “dmoglobal” if somewhere along the post I have pasted codes containing these keywords. Sociaspark codes were clean. Now it was time for Widgetbucks codes (sidebar and single post pages). I can’t see those keywords either but when I removed the codes, my sites loaded perfectly well.
I can understand why there are erros in Widgetbucks codes. First Widgetbucks is in partnership with advertisers from around the world. If for some reasons, advertisers’ codes don’t show up ads in your sites or their servers are down, then most likely your sites too will not load properly.
This thing happened to me many times in the past. Now I have to wait if the Widgetbucks codes/javascripts will work well in the next few days before pasting those codes back in my sites. The sad thing was, Google robots were in some of my sites during the period they were redirected. I guess, in a way, some of my sites will be penalized for this incident.
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8 Responses so far to "Widgetbucks Codes Redirecting My Sites to Other URLs"
September 10th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Kuya!
bakit di ikaw makacomment sa akong blog? huhuhuhu…
eh bakit ikaw lang ang hindi?
oi buti naman oks na ang prob sa widgetbucket mo..
ingat po.:]
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jessie reply on September 10, 2008:
Twinks,
Yeah, I have fixed my problems with widgetbucks codes about two hours after I noticed it.
I’m not sure why I can’t comment in your site. I have checked the cookies and they’re all in place.
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Joyoz reply on September 11, 2008:
Haha dati rin di ako makacomment kay twinks Fren pero sa third party cookie ko na figure out.
Wala ako alam dyan sa widgetbucks at chitkitika nayan fren hehehe.
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September 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Joy,
Until now I can’t post a comment at twinks’ blog.
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September 11th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Nagkaroon din ako ng similar problem last week, nag redirect ang site ko sa ibang url. Kaya tinanggal ko na lang yung code.
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jessie reply on September 12, 2008:
Amor,
I was freaking out dahil nakita ko tong site na to naging PR0. 24 hours After removing the widgetbucks codes, my PR3 is back.
Pag hindi na-crawl kasi ng Googlebots ang site mo nang maayos eh ganun ang interpretation nya, tanggal-PR ka.
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September 12th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
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December 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
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