Sorry, I was logged in as you to see if you had your listing router set up so that we weren't routing traffic away from you that you intended to keep. Then I commented on your post on accident. What I meant to say was:

We do send remnant traffic for searches done on ActiveRain where no one is buying listing router traffic or members have not set up the 'my market' area of their listing router to a few remnant buyers. If you want the traffic, we will send it wherever you tell us to send it, for whatever city that might be. If you don't want the traffic, we will send it to the first ActiveRain members to bid on that traffic. If no one bids on it and the owner of the blog does not want traffic for the particular market, then yes, we send it to remnant traffic buyers.......otherwise there is no where to send the person doing the search.

He has his listing router set up. So the searches may be for markets outside of his markets he has identified.......At any point Joshua you can opt out and we won't send anything anywhere........

I also left you this in an email Ginger:

Ginger,

You have set up the free component of Hit Router. This will route all traffic from your blog, your blog posts, or your profile.

However, in order to get traffic from other members blogs, posts, or the common areas of ActiveRain, you must set up a campaign and pay for that traffic.

If you were to log out and go to your own pages and perform a search based on the markets you set up, you would be taken to your page. You can learn more about Hit Router here:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/759848/hit-router-whiteboard-explanation-

That is a video that explains it and also has links to tutorial and explanatory posts about Hit Router at the bottom.

Clicking around on 'network links in Localism'. Joshua, sorry I'm not sure I understand what 'network links in Localism' means. Can you maybe email me a screen shot so I can see which links you are referring to and try to provide our reasoning?

You have total control of your content here to the degree that whatever you choose to include on ActiveRain, you can control what links appear. If you don't want to send content to Localism, you don't have to. If you would like the listing router bar removed from your content, you can choose to do that.

I would love to see if we can figure out the issue because if this is the only reason that you choose not to participate I think there is a valid explanation.......maybe a phone call is in order. I'll try to track you down this week sometime.

oops, bob@activerain.com would be where you would have to email me a screen shot if you have time to do that (since our contact forms do not handle attachments)