allinurl comand

why am I seeing FAST?

[needinfo]

when I use the allinurl: comand to see the pages indexed by Google some results I get are as follows for example :

click.fastsearch.com/go2/2/ps/1c67E3E3C7/MjUzMjY0CTExMTcxMjcyMzgJMglza2kgaW5zdXJhbmNlICtVUkwuZG9tYWluOnVr/http/www.mydomainname.co.uk:80/

when I click on this link it just goes to my homepage. Can anybody tell me why I should be seeing FAST returned in the allinurl: command?

[WebGuerrilla]

Google followed a Fast link containing a 302 redirect to your site. (a click tracking link from a Fast SERP).

When Google indexes a page it found through a redirect, it tends to list the url that contained the redirect rather than the url of the final page. Since that url contains your domain name, it will be returned when you do an allinurl: search.

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WebGuerrilla

Thanks for the answer but I havn't ever set up any redirects.

[WebGuerrilla]

It's not your redirect.

When a search engine returns results to a search, they often serve urls that run the visitor through a click tracking system that logs what site you clicked on. Once your click is logged you are redirected to the site.

It is not uncommon for search engines to crawl each others search results. When that happens, the url containing the redirect is what ends up getting listed.

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WebGuerrilla

Thanks for explaining that to me.