My domain name in title but not my site

[Kahless]

Hi, a search of my domain name excluding the .com for example gives my site in first few results. But a couple of days ago the 3rd google link shows mydomainname.com in the title with my description under it, but the green URL points to an obscure new search engine directory site.

If you click on the link it appears as if you are on my site since they have it in a frame that you cannot see with their additional Ads at the top.

It seems this new search engine directory is doing this for many of the links on their site but not all. I contacted them and asked that I be removed from their site but no response yet.

From the stories I read I am not sure if I should contact google since perhaps my links might get removed in the process.

Any advice?

thx

Kahless

[Kahless]

I probably should have put that example as
"my site name . com" since I just realized that domain above really exists. (which has nothing to do with what I posted)

Too bad you cannot go back and edit posts. Oh well I hope that explains it well enough anyway.

[fclark]

Much discussion of your situation here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Kahless]

Thx. I reported it through this form [google....] com/contact/spamreport.html so I guess a wait and see.

The offending site is like one big DMOZ with the only difference being they are using hidden framing for all the links and actually using your title/description in the framed page to achieve high SE page rank. They hide the frame so well that a user really has no idea they are not on your site unless they check the browser URL.

I have heard nothing back from the offending sites online web form and doubt I will. I checked the domain name through whois but they use registerfly .com that hides the owners details. Looks like more work will be involved tracking the owner down.

[edited by: lawman at 6:00 pm (utc) on Dec. 6, 2004]

[fclark]

You could use a frame buster to at least foil their attempts to profit on adsense.

You might also want to edit your post to remove the how-to instructions for would-be page hijackers.