something smells fishy here, or is it just me?

are people trying to use MY sites for THEIR profit?

[Craig_F]

Just found these on Yahoo. Looking for input on what is going on here since I haven’t seen this before.

1) Redirect script on a competitor’s Yahoo store has my URL (www.MY-SITE.com) in it. What for? What are they trying to do? NOTE: this has been changed a bit to keep involved parties anonymous.

<script language="javascript" src="http://redirect1.exampleexample.com"></script>

2) Another site of mine shows a bunch of URLs from someone else’s site as backlinks. Problem is that they all appear to be MY PAGES (identical titles, url structure, etc). The cache shows that my pages were on that site at some point, although the site doesn’t appear to have any of them live any more. What’s going on here? Was someone trying something naughty, or did Yahoo somehow get confused?

[edited by: agerhart at 7:09 pm (utc) on Nov. 15, 2004]
[edit reason] fixed for scrolling [/edit]

[Birdman]

Craig, you should read these two threads. I think they may be relevant.

Meta Refresh leads to ...
... Replacement of the target URL! [webmasterworld.com]

Dupe content checker - 302's - Page Jacking - Meta Refreshes
You make the call. [webmasterworld.com]

[Craig_F]

on #1 above you can't tell since the code has been edited, but it looks like it might just be referrer tracking script that Yahoo Stores use. can anyone validate that for me? also, if my site doesn't link to that site, how would I show up as the referrer?

<added>thanks birdman!</added>