What do you call it when someone does this to you!

unwanted URL forwarding...?

[PinkPanther]

I have noticed some hits from a weird website and when I entered the URL and went to the site - it was our own website.

It seems that the owner of this website is forwarding people to our website. This guy owns a hosting/website design company and uses some sites as samples. My guess is that he is using this bogus url which forward to ours as a sample.

We both use the same web host by the way. Is this normal, can I do anything to stop it? Also what is this called URL forwarding?

I already contacted him and his host, no replies as of yet.

Thanks for the help.

Pink

[PinkPanther]

I am frustrated that someone can do this! Has this happened to anyone else here?

[hannamyluv]

It's called redirecting. This thread may be of some help to you.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[SlowMove]

You can enter the URL here to find out about the redirect:

[webmasterworld.com...]

or if the redirect is on the page you can go to your stats or wherever you found the URL, right click on the link, and select "save target as" and open with a text editor to see the page.

[PinkPanther]

Slowmove -- I did that and see my html info, what does this mean?

[woop01]

We both use the same web host by the way.

Have you thought that possibly the host has his site setup wrong?

[SlowMove]

It means there is no Web page. There should be a code. If it's 301, that means that he's telling the server that the page has been permanently moved to your URL, and when a browser sees that, it usually requests the new URL. Traffic is good, but I'm not so sure about that kind of traffic.

[PinkPanther]

woop01,

I spoke with the guy that owns this "odd" site and he claims it is not his. Anyhow...the host may have made the mistake, so I will wait until I can hear from them.

Thanks for all the help :)

[PinkPanther]

Thank you Slowmove - hopefully it will get fixed up shortly as I do not want any such traffic ;)