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All I know in Italian is "mi porti una bottiglia di birra" and a few choice nasties, so I cannot tell what that site is, or whether it's linked - not at all likely.
Looking up the links to that site, there is an enormous collection of FFA link pages.
When I look up links: for my site now, that Italian site is the first one as well as an enormous number of pages of FFA links pages..which I have never done.
Very mysterious - how can this happen?
Everything on my SERP has returned to normal this morning.
It went back to normal, now is switching back and forth. I wrote them, let's see what happens.
Grazie chi, I fixed the spelling.
I wrote to AV about it, and didn't even receive an autoresponder reply. So what I'll have to do is report that site as spam, because even though they might not actually remove the that corrupt their search results, a spam complaint does, in fact, receive not only an automated response, but a personal reply.
Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be told HOW this can have happened, and I am very curious to find out.
I'm livid over this.
a) hickups at AltaVista
b) for the really paranoid: Machiavelli is pulling your leg, with some clever cloaking. Item: His home page is "A weekend in Florence" Item: The italian site showing up is named "Italian nights." Very suspicious....
I have seen this before though - a single totally unrelated search reply in a host search at AV, so my guess is a) above. Can't be Machiavelli all the time. (Or can it.....?)
I did report this to AV again (spam report this time), and also contacted my web host, since they did experience a bit of a DNS problem according to an email a few weeks ago (that's what the email had said). But I was reappearing about every 3rd or 4th search earlier, and now the index page is totally gone. Plus the fact that there are 200 links showing, none of which are linked to me - but could be to the other site.
Also, that Graphics subdirectory is in place for the category, though down a spot (no biggie). It's just the index page that's being "replaced."
Hmmm, never thought of Machiavelli :)
Did the search and understand why you are climbing the walls. Me thinks AV somehow got and stored the wrong IP number. They meant to have you as #1, but something happened in a DNS server somewhere. Have you checked your IP vs theirs? Clearly AV can't give their users meaningless answers like this one if they want to remain in business. But if it is really an isolated case, then I guess it will end up at the bottom of their pile.
Meanwhile, how about a new URL for yourself: region1-region2-region3-web-designers.com
Or, you could add your URL to the Italian site. They do have an English language interface and I did spot an add URL button. (If you can't beat them, join them.)
Or maybe Machiavelli comes clean and fixes this thing.
>a new URL for yourself: region1-region2-region3-web-designers.com
so rencke, that would be western-united-states-southern-california-los-angeles-web-designers.com Something will have to go, it's over 63 characters.
Phew - that was lucky. I was beginning to suspect myself too....
No, I wish I could do something quite so sinister (as it would have been had it not been an AV error), but I wouldn't have had the faintest idea how to. Besides, my Italian is strictly limited to asking the way to the railway station, and telling girls what beautiful brown eyes they have. The edge has gone out of Italian politics over the last 500 or so years.
Maybe something like san-fernando-valley-web-designers.com with or without hyphens?
Machiavelli, sorry for casting doubt upon your character. As a small token of friendship, here is one more useful phrase for you: "Scusi, dove il una cabinetto?" (Where's the john?) If the answer is anything other than "a destra" (to the right), "a sinistra" (to the left) or "al fondo" (straight ahead) - I guess you're out of luck.
There is another useful translation of that, in case Machiavelli should ever visit our American South (according to the thread in Foo entitled "Language of the South):
Over yonder, behind that bush.
...and mind the poison ivy.
rencke, it doesn't do enough to warrant $13.50 a year for a new domain name. It's the principle of the thing, something like people who love a fox hunt. It's not the quarry that counts, but the thrill of the chase.
Something is askew with the AV database and European sites (plus all kinds of porn sites coming up, according to the other thread).
No, the same one all the time (that I've seen, anyway).
Mike
<edit: no sigs, please -rcj>
The "error" was because of Google results fluctuating, but since the update stabilized, this thread has now moved up from #7 to #5 under web designers san fernando valley at Google. Top ten relevance, folks!
LOL.. not only that, but someone has put a link to me on a Zeus page, using a description which includes all the words in the search term and that link page is #8.
When you think about it, if someone has Google figured out, they can literally stalk a site all over Google SERPS with links. If a few more people put up links with my keywords, we can take over the entire first page.
OK.. I will do a link on another site of my own, and have a friend change the context of her link to me, and we will see two months around.
No big deal, because nobody searches for that phrase anyway, but it's fascinating to me that part of Google's algorithm is so incredibly simplistic that understanding it could actually be dangerous in the wrong hands.
