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supine

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Hi, sorry if I have not formatted my post right but this is my first time here & am rather concerned about the following...
Can anyone explain how these search results manage to redirect from Googles cache to their home page? Not very elegantly as I can watch it even on my broadband connection. They are keyword competitors of ours & disturbingly if I add our site name to the search string it shows in the text grabbed by google...

String :

š Accommodation in Southern Highlands Australia š
Search: Accommodation in Southern Highlands Australia, Date: This
Month. Found ... Accommodation in Southern Highlands,Australia. Link ...
accommodation-in.gofuzion.com/Australia/Accommodation%20in%20Southern%20Highlands%20Australia/ - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

š Hotels in Southern Highlands Australia š
... accommodation... .. coast (NSW) southern highlands (NSW) sydney ...
accommodation deals in Australia - covering the next ... travel ...
- 93k - Cached - Similar pages
 
Hi mate,

The redirect will be because they have a check of the url in their source, this is very easy to do.

Can you explain what you mean about the following?

They are keyword competitors of ours & disturbingly if I add our site name to the search string it shows in the text grabbed by google...

Hope this helps


Wullie


The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
 
Hi mate,

Me again. Turn off javascript in your browser and then click the cache link. You will see that the page is search results and they are really spamming the engines for certain keywords.

Hope this helps

Wullie


The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change.
The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
 
Hope this clarifies:
If I repeat the search "Accommodation Southern Highlands Australia" (no quotes) with our company name included "totaltravel Accommodation Southern Highlands Australia" the top 2 results are:

š Accommodation in Southern Highlands Australia š
... southern highlands hotels Found by: Teoma | NEW 62 ... Accommodation in Southern Highlands. ...
accommodation-in.gofuzion.com/Australia/Accommodation%20in%20Southern%20Highlands%20Australia/ - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

š Hotels in Southern Highlands Australia š
... Found by: Teoma | NEW ... coast (NSW) southern
highlands (NSW) sydney ... accommodation deals in Australia - covering the next ...
- 93k - Cached - Similar pages

Does anyone have any idea how & why our url appears in the results?
Are they stealing our traffic?
Surely it is a blatent manipulation of google serps to redirect from theusual google cache page with highlighted words to their page?
 
Thanks for the javascript tip - so they are cloaking a metasearch results page for the keywords & redirecting to their home page. Their backlinks contain loads of porn 7 gambling sites that use same technique -ugly but sadly it is working for them!
 
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