Just found an Adult site link to me..How Come?

How to take it out from their site?

[Cyclob]

Hi...

My site was doing very well for last few month but I have a feeling that it start to doing worst since last month. When I click on "More pages from this site" in Google or Yahoo serp. it's getting less and less amount of my page showing....

This mean they start to drop my page, isn't it? So I just type in my Domain name in Yahoo search box and I found wierd websites link to me (about 3 sites). When I click on that link, it goes to a site which I'm pretty sure that I never ever ask link exchange from them.

So I tried another way, I copy url from Yahoo search result and paste it in address box...it just redirect to the same page.

I thought that it must be an adult site because in the url it has like "widget_X" in it.

How can I take this out from their website, I don't want them to like to me at all. I feel that I'm being penalized slowly everyday coz my pages is starting to drop out from search result.

Anybody please give me some advice please....

Cyclob

[Spica]

Cyclob:
There is no way you can control who links to your site. As long you don't reciprocate, it doesn't matter. Don't worry about it. That is probably not the reason why your site is losing ranking.

[ThomasB]

I would worry, especially in the days of Florida and slow death .... But only if there are more unliked links

[kaled]

I have a link to my site (shareware/freeware) from a softcore gay porn site. I very much doubt it does anything other than help my PR.

Kaled.

[BigDave]

You do know that Yahoo no longer uses Google, don't you? So checking in Yahoo, will no longer tell you how you are doing in Google.

As for that link, I wouldn't worry about it unless that is one of you only incoming links. And if it is one of your only links, you probably weren't ranking all that well anyway. So go get more links from places that you want to be associated with.

[rfgdxm1]

Unless the problem is lots of garbage click through traffic from that porn site link, thank them for it. With Google, the more links the better.

[geekay]

Could somebody explain to me why such 'weird' sites are putting unsolicited links to Cyclob's site on their pages? What do they benefit from it? Do they need credibility? Probably not. I take it they are not Cyclob's enemies, trying to hurt him.

[edited by: geekay at 7:31 pm (utc) on April 5, 2004]

[idoc]

You might look into whether the site is redirecting to your site for the googlebot and to some affiliate page in your industry when a regular user comes around. Google seems to have some relatively new issues handling redirects. I have been seeing this some and it looks to me to be a real problem that no one wants to believe in.

[GoogleGuy]

Messages 2-7 make a lot of sense to me--you can't help who links to you.

[idoc]

"So I just type in my Domain name in Yahoo search box and I found wierd websites link to me (about 3 sites). When I click on that link, it goes to a site which I'm pretty sure that I never ever ask link exchange from them"

Are you sure they actually link to you or that they just come up in a search for your domain name? If you were doing well in an industry that offers affiliate plans for clicks or traffic... I still think you should check for redirects. You have to check forensically, check for your domain name with one of your keywords at a time in google and note the domains that google returns snippets for and look for your exact text in the snippets... pay most attention to the domains that have disallowed caching of their content for starters.

There was a thread on this started by Yidaki with surprisingly little interest last week.

[Ginger_Tom]

You are responsible for your own actions if other guys link to you what can you do about it.

You may wish to email them and ask them to remove you and if its a PR7 or better site tell them to contact me i like free links. :)

[ncw164x]

I was concerned just before Christmas last year when I discovered porn sites using the description and URL of pages from my site which related to my home town of all places.

When you clicked on the link the browser went full screen and started to download a dialer, no one seemed interested when I posted the comment either but a couple of google updates and they all got removed from the database.

ncw164x

[idoc]

"if its a PR7 or better site tell them to contact me i like free links"

But if they redirect to your site and have higher p.r. than you... who gets caught in the duplicate content filter?

[DavidT]

Does it not become a problem when Google's related links feature starts to show the porn sites?

[javajester]

"Could somebody explain to me why such 'weird' sites are putting unsolicited links to Cyclob's site on their pages? What do they benefit from it? Do they need credibility? Probably not. I take it they are not Cyclob's enemies, trying to hurt him."

Sites with a referrer page attract porn sites. Their goal is get listed on the referrer page which gives them an additional link. These unsolicited sites can chew up an incredible amount of bandwidth with continuous referrer hits to your site.

[BuckerBucker]

I had a Romanian porno site link to me a couple of months ago. Why....I don't know and couldn't find out if I wanted....languages are too different. Their business and my business are on opposite ends of the spectrum of websites out there. Surprisingly, they have provided me with several new purchasing customers and contacts. What I first feared has become one of my most profitable referrers, and because I would never link back to them, it's free and my integrity stays intact.

[thecoalman]

I have the same problem, or is it not a problem? There is a bunch of sites that are all very similar. They all have addresses like www.widget-portal.com/mykeyword.php www.widget-mykeyword-portal.com/notmykeyword.php or something similar to this. Most seem to have the portal on the the end of the root URL. Seems to be some kind of search result. They also have google ads at the top, a search bar and links to other sites. Some of the links are similar some are not. There are numerous sites like this.....all have a pr of 0. I'm able to find them easily because my name is integrated into my company name and site. Being a Slovak name there is about 50 people in the US that have it....... It's not like typing in Smith's Store.

[idoc]

There have been alot of these pseudo-directory sites popping up especially since now that google favors directory sites over content sites. A good deal of these contain snarfed google snippets just "regurgitated" back at the googlebot who is more than happy to eat them up. If you compare cached versions to displayed versions usually the links that made the page rank well have been substituted with affiliate tracking links and it will have adwords on it by the time anyone besides a bot sees it so you will get no benefit. They are traffic siphons drawing from the work of the legitimate pages that rank well for the terms. And since the trash pages have no p.r. the link is worth nothing. I would say overall it is a negative because someone searching for you by name could be redirected to a competitor by these pages.

[Schneewittchen]

@cyclob
have your site a visible/public link to a counter or other webstat-tool which tracks your referrer urls?
it is possible the link to your site is only a kind of referrer-spam. if ...the page is logged as referrer, then the possibility exists the referrer-site become a backlink from your statistic-page and some clicks from webmasters and other visitors. specially porn-sites have nice methods to push there pages. this link has a sense...but not to help you

[edited by: Schneewittchen at 11:59 pm (utc) on April 6, 2004]

[idoc]

I built and keep a site for a church that foreign porn sites are redirecting to. I think there is a method to the madness also. I don't claim to fully understand it all either. I just know that sometimes google is indexing pages as belonging to the site that redirected the bot. The main problem I think is that "black hat" methods to take traffic from legitimate sites *used* to be the trademark of adult only sites and now it seems to have spread to anywhere there is an affiliate dollar. I don't know that Google's tightening of the noose around these guys accelerated this or what... The apparent lack of interest in these type concerns though makes me wonder about a lot of things.