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How is traffic to my website being directed to metamark, and why does it say spam has been reported from my website so my website has been shut down? Before 5 minutes ago I never heard of metamark. When I type the URL for my site www.columbusfoodnadwine.com, I see it on the screen for about 2 seconds then the page is redirected to Metamark (http://xrl.us/kk3w6) with a message that says tthe URL has been reported in spam.

How could my URL get redirected to Metamark? Before today I have never been to the site.

Are you guys planning on doing anything to discourage the use of your website by spammers? I use the Userplane webmessenger on my site and spammers are using that to spam my clients with your shorten URLs which redirect to Webcams.com.

Is there any way yet using the REST API that I can create xrl.us URLs with nicknames?

Why not remove websites that are 404'd -- using server headers? Although, I guess it would be a hassle to run on a million URLs (bandwidth costs, CPU time costs, etc.)

Maybe allow a user to submit a broken link, check its headers, then allow the user to remap the URL. Potential for abuse? Probably. :/

Is there a link preview option in case someone sends a link that may lead to a harmful site?

If updated a map to a link but I'd like to keep the same nickname.

Will the short links work forever?

Since forever, in mac firefox, when I hit my shorten! bookmark the pop-up appears for a instant and then dives under the window and disappears. Rotating through the windows it to bring it to the top let's me get at the result.

For example, I am using Metamark for affiliate links and I would like to add (for example) "/?tid=GOOGLE1" to the end of it and have the true link plus the extension as the expanded link.

e.g.

xrl.us/affiliate1 -> www.rc.affiliate1.hoplink.clickbank.com

xrl.us/affiliate1/?tid=TEST -> www.rc.affiliate1.hoplink.clickbank.c...

Hope you can make sense of that.

Thanks.

richard@charrington.net

I have just set up a metamark account and am experimenting with two links. I clicked them both a few times, and under 'My Metamark' it says, for example, in respect of the first link: 'Clicks: 5', 'Unique Clicks: 2'.

My question: what is your definition of a 'unique click', as distinct from just a 'click'? I would have thought that 'unique clicks' equals 'unique users' if so, why do my own clicks register as multiple 'unique' clicks?

Is there a way to prevent hotlinking to the shortened URL based on referrer so that only those clicks on specific website will get through. Clicks from other sites will be directed to an error page.