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Hyphened redirects

any chance Google will accept these?

         

skipfactor

10:43 pm on Feb 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I posted this as a reply to another topic, and it was lost in the weeds, so here goes:

I have a competitor that knocked my hard work out of #1 Ink with a(my)keyword hyphened domain name and URLs. And you guessed it, these hyphened URLs meta redirect you to his very non-keyword rich root domain. The redirects are from the same IP as his root, which is hosted on the VPS of his SEO firm.

Is there any chance of a Google listing for him? I can handle him on Ink (a matter of pride, right?), but after all of my honest, hard work on Google (neither one of us are indexed yet), I'm going need a few stiff ones if his wicked ways work for Google for even a month.

Anybody have any past experience with this debauchery and how (hopefully) Googlebot handles it?

aspdesigner

11:14 am on Feb 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

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From what you descibed, these sound like re-directing spam doorway domains. If he does start doing these on Google, you might want to look at -

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skipfactor

6:40 pm on Feb 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Exactly what he was using. Ink shut him down in less than 24 hours after a little courtesy mail to spamreport@inktomi.com, probably a little costly for the chap to start over eh? So I'm sure it will be the same w/ Google. Honest, hard work DOES pay off. Thanks AD. LET'S DANCE!