.info urls in my site: search results

[Bindi]

Hi
This is my first time I have been on this forum so please excuse my ignorance if I am placing this question in the wrong place.

I have a website of over 1000 pages and growing daily. All pages were listed with google untill about 4 months ago. I am now left with only 200 pages. It was been at 200 for quite some time.

When I do a search for my domain name on google I get a list of 949 url's. Nearly all of these url's end in .info

such as

<Specific domain names removed.
All were multi-hyphen .info domains
related to cheats for games>

and the list goes on like this.

this is one url that I clicked on. You will see just a page of junk (if I can call it that)

<domain removed>

Can somebody please tell me what this means? why do I get these .info url's when doing a search for my site.

Thank you in advance and sorry if I have confused any of you.

<Sorry, no specific domains names.
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[edited by: tedster at 6:12 pm (utc) on Sep. 17, 2006]

[tedster]

There was an almost identical report to yours a little while ago. I have not located it yet, but I will keep looking. The thing that stuck in my memory was that the odd urls were on identical gamer cheat topics and were also .info domains.

I can't quite wrap my head around how a domain that is clearly not yours ends up being in your site: results. I suspect DNS games, and I also wonder if you are on a dedicated IP address, or if you share an IP with other domains.

[Bindi]

when I do a search on google I am only searching www.mysite.com
when I click on the .info links it takes me to a page that has many other sites and their descriptions listed just like what you would see on a google search.

The only thing is that none of these sites are linked on the page. there is actually no link of the page apart from google adsense at the very top. So my guess is that they are using our sites to earn from google adsense. Of casue it's only a guess.

Would be intersting to see the other thread if you can find it. I have been searching on here also but have not found any yet.

[LunaC]

Bindi, I was seeing the exact same as you for 2 of my sites.

I signed up to Google alerts to let me know when my site url and names are mentioned and get email alerts about the .info sites quite often.

Now it seems that they show up below mine when I search www.example.com, but no longer in site:

Ranking so far (touch wood) hasn't been effected. I noticed this starting a few weeks ago when I has signed up to the alerts.

I have reported a few using the link "ads by Google" on their pages some have disappeared but honestly, I haven't kept track of the ones I reported to see if those are the ones removed.

[Bindi]

I might report a few to google in the same way you did and keep track of them to see if they disappear.

I really don't know if this is the reason why my pages have dropped dramatically but it did look suspicious.

I will let you know what the outcome is if any when reporting them to google.

[Bindi]

After sending in spam reports using the google spam report page I have seen a massive drop in these .info url's

Although not all are gone as of yet ...there are about 400+ pages that have disappeared.

This is a really good sign and I hope that google continues to drop them.

Sad to say that my pages are still way down.