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Post by forth on Dec 25, 2020 19:22:10 GMT
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cjd
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Post by cjd on Dec 25, 2020 19:26:35 GMT
Is this a site you've created?
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Post by forth on Dec 26, 2020 17:31:33 GMT
I made the site as a hobby. It is not intended to be an indepth list of articles. More a case of giving some information to collectors who have not seen some of the information before. My main collecting interests were Hong Kong Treaty Port cancels and Foreign P.O.'s in China. Is it against rules to list my site here? I am new to forum.
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 26, 2020 17:49:16 GMT
There may be a problem here . I have clicked the link to the Seahorses blog and within a few seconds some interesting and saucy blogs pop up ......trouble ?
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 26, 2020 17:57:33 GMT
Hi, forth: Thanks for your posts! No, it is not against the rules to list your own site here on the Forum. In fact, members who have their own sites often put the link into their TSF profile so that it displays at the bottom each time they make a post. A couple of members who do this that come to mind are: classicalstamps and jkjblue, but there are others. You may want to have look at some of their posts to see what they have done, and then decide how you would like to do yours. Hope this helps. If unclear, please PM me and I will try to provide more info. Thanks, Chris  |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Dec 26, 2020 18:01:47 GMT
There may be a problem here . I have clicked the link to the Seahorses blog and within a few seconds some interesting and saucy blogs pop up ......trouble ? I tried the link, and it initially worked for me, but it also seems to have opened a second window which is something else entirely.... not saucy like Alex found, but heavy advertising for cars and other stuff. Hmmm.... not really sure what's going on there, forth. Is there some sort of trick to get a clean connection to your site? |
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cjd
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Post by cjd on Dec 26, 2020 18:05:39 GMT
I was just curious to know if the linked sites were something interesting you found in your web travels, or something you created.
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 26, 2020 19:26:46 GMT
Tried again and the pop up was not the saucy live chat , this time it was to enrol with Just Eat . Mods. This does not look safe !
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Ryan
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What I collect: If I have a catalogue for it, I collect it. And I have many catalogues ....
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Post by Ryan on Dec 26, 2020 22:24:35 GMT
I tried the link and got the blogspot.com post as expected, with nothing else showing up. But I have a browser with pop-ups blocked and an ad-blocker installed as well, so I don't often see such extra stuff. The link works cleanly for me, in any case. Perhaps it's something to do with Blogger, the host for these blogspot.com sites - I don't know why that would be the case, though, since jkjblue's site is also a Blogger site, and I don't recall anybody else mentioning extra pages (saucy or not) popping up when visiting his site. Ryan |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Dec 26, 2020 23:01:32 GMT
It doesn’t happen with any of jkjblue ‘s blog ... only the one above |
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Post by forth on Dec 27, 2020 17:56:44 GMT
Hello. There should not be any re-directs or pop ups connected with this blog. I will check it and if I find any problem I will try to fix. If I cannot I will delete. Thanks for the info on this.
I deleted the link and added a fresh one to the same blog. Hope this works ok.
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Dec 27, 2020 23:20:58 GMT
I note that when I go to the Seahorse issue blog post, my ad-blocker tells me that 4 elements were blocked (5 elements, if I go to the blog home page instead of the individual post). When I look at jkjblue's Big Blue blog, also hosted on Blogger, my ad-blocker says that only a single element was blocked. Perhaps Jim has a package he's paying for which stops ads from being shown - I don't know how Blogger works, but WordPress blog hosting has a subscription option which allows the blog author to pay a fee to stop ads from showing on their site (as I said, I use an ad-blocker so I don't see what others who don't use a blocker would see, so these two Blogger sites don't show any advertising differences for me). Or maybe Blogger is like YouTube, which allows the user to stops ads from showing up without needing to buy a subscription but which requires an explicitly set variable to stop "monetization", as they call it. I don't know. The source code for the Seahorse issue blog does show some extra advertising elements not found on the Big Blue site - on a quick look, I see code for Google Ads and for AdFly. Looking online for some info about AdFly, I would guess that this is the source for these "saucy" ads which some people are seeing. Ryan |
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Post by jkjblue on Dec 28, 2020 7:24:10 GMT
Hi - Jim Jackson here - bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com
I know, for my blogspot.com site - which in 6 weeks will be ten years running! - I have never elected to monetize my site, it is purely educational. And I do not pay more for that.
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Admin
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Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2020 12:16:00 GMT
I'm moving this thread in its entirety to the Member Blogs & Websites board as it appears to have morphed into a discussion of blogspot.com.
Please consider creating and/or contributing to a thread on the Great Britain board that is focused solely on the Seahorse issue
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