MSN.com redirecting my site

[flyclothing]

I was just testing my website ranking on MSN.com with various searches and found they are redirecting every link to my site. I did a search for "Flyclothing" (http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q...NH&srch_type=0) and found when you click on the site, it takes you to MSN.com. What really perturbs me is I am also paying Overture for ads on MSN and even the ads are redirecting to MSN.com. I just cancelled the Overture account until I can find what the issue is, but I believe I have been charged several times for ads that are redirecting to MSN.com.

Does anyone have experience with something like this? I have contacted MSN and Overture and I am waiting to receive a response.

[n2links]

It appears to be working fine searching MSN.com now. It's hard to troubleshoot it when it's working.

[bj]

I just had a scurrilously horrible thought. What if they do this to everybody? Say one or two minutes out of every day . . . would be hard to catch, and even if you did if it's "working right now" how can you rebut that? And don't even think they wouldn't do something like this . . . remember the MS Smart Tags debacle?

[dostwo]

Well my paranoia has just increased. Thanks alot bj :D

[bwn]

You have some kind of adware spyware on your system it isn't msn or overture it is your system redirecting you. I suggest clean you computer ASAP it is on your machgine....

Originally Posted by flyclothing

I was just testing my website ranking on MSN.com with various searches and found they are redirecting every link to my site. I did a search for "Flyclothing" (http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q...NH&srch_type=0) and found when you click on the site, it takes you to MSN.com. What really perturbs me is I am also paying Overture for ads on MSN and even the ads are redirecting to MSN.com. I just cancelled the Overture account until I can find what the issue is, but I believe I have been charged several times for ads that are redirecting to MSN.com.

Does anyone have experience with something like this? I have contacted MSN and Overture and I am waiting to receive a response.

[colr]

Althought its a bit late, I would have brought this to Overture first before cancelling the program. Since you are no longer a customer, they wont bother to find the problem for you!

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[mawells]

I think you may be all worked up over nothing. Typically all of the search engines paid ad programs redirect your links so that they can capture the data that they report to you (number of clicks, impressions, etc.). That's all it is. The person who clicks on this link is still taken to your site - and isn't that the point of buying the ad?

Your paid ads have nothing to do with natural placement rankings.