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Just to give you a bit of background - we are going out of our way to get bloggers to talk about and link (we are not paying for them) to our products.  We recently noticed that a number of these bloggers have signed up to skimlinks and are using shortened URL's (fave.co/12345) and are no-following these (is this correct procedure?).

It's a little awkward, as it's devaluing our PR teams work, as we aren't able to see the sites generating revenue, GA simply shows the affiliate number (skimlinks) and that's it.

has anyone else had similar issues with skimlinks and if so how did you deal with them?  Are the links they are "hijacking" harmful to our site?

also going to https://casecurity.ssllabs.com/index.html and entering "example.com" or "www.example.com" shows two different certificates.

the "example.com" certificate comes up as not trusted and when pasting the ip address into the browser it redirects through to the website.

www.example.com certificate comes up as trusted, however when pasting the the ip address it takes me through to a page with the message "your connection is not private" and when clicking the continue anyway link, it takes me through to an unsecure IIS page?

is this a problem? or is this a non-issue?