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http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/xxxxxxx.htm?&engine=www.google.com&search=yyyyyyy+zzzzzzzz
AT the very least it is a redirect. Is is cloaking or something else? Just curious. Of course, I'd like the competing page I'm constructing to come up #1.
I also had to preform several searches yesterday not related to my on-line business, and the same thing - lots of garbage listings, redirects, etc.
Digging a little deeper, I discoverd that many of the pages that were redirecting on some keywords were all pointed at the same affiliate site with the affiliate code....hmmmm. They were under multiple domains and used the same keywords in the page name. There are always some of these pages in the results, but Google seems to be overwhelmed by them as a result of the last update.
It is also curious that the impact of a listing on dmoz seems to be downgraded. Maybe it is the amount of outbound links in the ODP now. But prior to the last update, about 80% of the top results for kw's I follow had a directory listing also. After this update, only about 40% on the first two pages had directory listings (and I follow several hundred keywords across four unrealted categories). One can say whatever they want about dmoz, but at least they are able to normally screen out the obvious spam.
Maybe the focus on snaring link spam in the algos has allowed some good old fashioned key word and cloaking spam in. Another factor supporting this is that many of the top ranked pages on many of these keywords have PR's of around 3 when they used to be 4 and 5 - I foucus on obscure and niche keywords. It is possible that the more stringent controls on link spam led to the downgrading/penalizing of many 4 and 5 sites with content and allowed many pure spam pages with low PR to rise to the top. This is particularly true for niche seacrhc terms since the last update, IMO.
I think it is a feed from the directory (DMOZ) that has been altered with redirects.
It will be removed.
You should post the results at google forum.
Todd
The title to the #1 page is for a product which isn't even mentioned once on the page to which you're redirected.
What I've done is construct a page that's unassailable and well optimized for the keywords using the same approach that's brought me several #1 rankings in this category. I'm going to see if my legitimate page can outrank the spammed out pages.
I'm not into being an internet cop, but I would like to educate myself further about this. Could you pm me with the url where this is being discussed or post it if its on Webmasterworld? Thanks.
It is a simple open proxy site. There are 4-5 of them a month. Remember bigate? and the dozen other ones. That one looks like it is specific to google.
