Help me understand this type of linking...

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Help me understand this type of linking...

Jon_King

3:38 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

I was just checking allinurl for one of my sites and came across my pages with someone elses url. This is the page html that my link points to at their site. Why would this show as a page on my site?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Their Company Description [mysite.com...]
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;URL=http://www.mysite.com/">

</head>

<body>
Their company description <br> You will be transferred to 'http://www.mysite.com/' in 2 seconds. <br><br><a href='http://www.mysite.com/'>http://www.mysite.com/</a> [123]</body>
</html>

Obviously the page refreshes to mysite.com, but why would they code it like this?

Matt Probert

5:53 pm on Feb 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

Perhaps they are hijacking a close and common mispelling of your URL in order to advertise their business?

Matt

martingale

6:02 pm on Feb 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

They are exploiting a bug in Google's crawler that may eventually cause all your pages to be replaced by their pages in Google's index.

Send them an email demanding that they stop. If they do not, send an email to Google telling them that this site is infringing your copyright (DMCA violation).

Second, alter the content of your page so that it is no longer duplicated. This attack works because Google will eventually notice that the two pages have the same content and will show only one of them in the Google index. There is some chance that it will show THEIR page instead of yours.