Trying to get a problem results site removed...

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Trying to get a problem results site removed...

Redirects Googlebot UA

bcolflesh

8:50 pm on Mar 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

There is site that keeps appearing in my search which has no relevance & displays spam to typical browser UAs, but returns the following for any UA w/"Googlebot" in it:

HTTP/1.1 200
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:43:18 GMT
Server: Apache/1.2.5
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

http://www.(fakeurl).com/
Server Busy. Please try later.

www.(fakeurl).com

Every month for the last 6-8 months I fill out a spam report, but have not had any action - should I keep at it or give up?

Regards,
Brent

Receptional Andy

9:09 pm on Mar 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

Why would they show spam to normal visitors and show google a holding page? That doesn't make sense.

And even if it's the other way around, why send all their Google traffic to a busy page?

bcolflesh

9:18 pm on Mar 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

I figure they are worried that the normal UA content will get them dropped from the SERPS, but they realize (and they appear to be correct for the last 6-8 months) that the "Server Busy" code just keeps them safe & unchanged.

I agree it is a very odd situation.

Regards,
Brent

Receptional Andy

9:33 pm on Mar 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

Can you sticky me the url please?

bcolflesh

9:58 pm on Mar 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

Done!

Receptional Andy

11:24 pm on Mar 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

Some interesting stuff from wayback:

here [web.archive.org]

I guess it's not really spam because they have no site - so they shouldn't really be ranking well for anything important. That said, the site clearly has a history, which does count in Google.

Out of interest, is your search term a colour, followed by a name for a small river? ;)

bcolflesh

4:13 am on Mar 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

"Out of interest, is your search term a colour, followed by a name for a small river? ;)"

Yep!

Regards,
Brent

Receptional Andy

9:27 am on Mar 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

In which case your problem is that although this site has no content whatsoever, it has enough incoming links that it still shows up high in the SERPs. However, I don't think that technically it is guilty of spam, so that is probably why the spam report hasn't worked.

What you should do is concentrate on your own site and build incoming links with '[colour] [small river]' in the link text pointing at your site. The site in question only has 20-30 incoming links and so this should be your target. Get enough links and you WILL beat them, because they currently don't even have the words on their page.

[Added]
I just had a quick scout around ;) and it seems to me that you are top for this term anyway (that's your .org domain?)

So what are you worried about?