I was visiting my blog on Jan 5th and was surprised that it redirected to another website, adbaaz.com. I did a quick check and found that as soon as my blog starting to load the Advertlets script, it triggered the redirection. Afraid it might affect my blog’s traffic and earning, I removed ALL Advertets scripts from my blog and true enough, it solves the problem.

As I was not in Malaysia that day, I do not have the luxury of time to investigate the cause of the redirection until today.

So what happened?
According to Josh Lim

A complication in the renewal process caused the Advertlets.com domain to expire, and caused issues for bloggers with our ads installed, which made their blogs redirect to a placeholder page. It was not our intent to do so. Advertlets.com blog users were unable to login to their Advertlets accounts and access the website as well.

This simple mistake causes a sharp drop in my earning on my other website because it serves other ad programs as well. But I am glad it was sorted out now.