tessmac - 3:48 pm on May 8, 2010 (gmt 0)

Tedster

Also, if you are seeing bogus backlinks such as example.com/keyword-here?q=spam-keyword a question that should come up is "Why would someone do that?" Especially if you are using a common CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, PHPNuke etc, {but really, in anmy case) there is a chance that you've been hacked. In other words, your page may be hosting parasite links that are cloaked so only googlebot sees them. The hacker/spammer would be creating those backlinks trying to build some ranking power for your page - so that THEIR parasite links gain ranking power. You can use the "fetch as googlebot" utility in WebmasterTools to quickly check if this is the caase.

Thanks..I have just checked and this doesn't seem to be the case. But as you say there must be a reason.

Would it be to trigger some type of penalty with G?