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A few teachers in our board discovered ads embedded in their Edublogs blogs a few weeks ago.  Here’s an exchange that took place over our board’s computer contact teacher forum:

Hiya,

We’ve got a class blog, and one parent has written to me a few times saying they’re seeing ads for diets, lesbian dating, etc. on the left side of our blog.  I’ve never seen any ads on edublogs on any of the computers I’ve used – home or work.    Our site is 45keeling.edublogs.org

Anyone else have this problem, or have any suggestions for me?  Don’t want this parent to continue to get these ads/complain, but not sure what to do!

Shannon

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Hi,

I’m using Edublogs as well and personally witnessed what the parent was talking about (and lived to tell the tale…) on my class blog. It happened one day last week and, thankfully, has not happened since.

I found mention to this issue in their forums:

Hi Guys,

Apologies for this, it was a bug in our system and should be fixed now, we have been experimenting with (extremely occasional) advertising in order to support Edublogs and you can find more information here.

It should be fixed up now.

Cheers, James

However, I just discovered if I searched for my class blog on Google (i.e. search “56nt edublogs”) and follow the link, the advertising is back.  Going directly to my site by type its URL (http://grade5nt.edublogs.org/) results in no advertising.

We’ll have to watch closely how this plays out.

Nathan

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I had noticed this too, but as mentioned it only seems to happen when finding the blog via a Google search. I just tested it by doing a google search for my class blog and when I clicked on the link, it was full of advertisements. When I hit F5 to refresh the screen, the advertisements went away.

Marc

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I tried it going through the URL, no ads, then through Google, ads this morning, no ads this afternoon. I am going to keep an eye on it, and also contact Edublogs if I get ads again. Has anyone else contacted Edublogs?

Thanks,

Barb

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I think that once you view the site without ads, it will automatically go back to that version unless you delete the cookies on your browser (which is why you didn’t get ads this afternoon). For example, I brought up the version with ads this morning through a google search, then I refreshed the screen to bring it up without ads. When I just did a google search again, and clicked on the link…it came up without ads. BUT, when I cleared the cookies in my browser and did a new search with google, it came up with ads again.

Marc

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