claus - 11:59 pm on Mar 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

Finally i managed to get through the whole thread. Good work and nice posts everyone :)

Now it's past midnigt here, so i don't really have time to write a lot, other than that japanese is right in most of the stuff about how this works. There are some minor tech details and some wording issues, but by and large he's got it 100% right.

(please don't use so many capital letters, though, it hurt my eyes)

Also, IncrediBILL is right above - there are legitimate referrers and it would not be good banning those, as that way nobody could link to you. It's a very tricky situation and there's no apparent solution that the individual webmaster can use. I do know my .htaccess stuff ;)

It must be fixed by Google - they are the ones that have created this problem by indexing "pages" that don't exist [1]. So, they should fix it.

Before i'm off to bed, i will just point to this thread i started in May 2004: What about those redirects, copies and mirrors? [webmasterworld.com]

I have been following this and related issues since sometime in 2003, and they have not been fixed yet.

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[1] Note: You're right here as well, japanese. I have used that term myself before as well. I'll post the specifics later.