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*one said that when she does a "search" for my site and clicks on the link she is taken to a site other than mine. It's another local website about the city we live in. The person who owns it has advertising on it so I am thinking that he wants to increase traffic and clicks. How can I fix this? I think it's probably adware that go installed on the person's PC?
*I just completed a sub-web for a real estate company who is paying me to be part of of my main site. The day after I put an ad icon on my home page that leads to the sub-web the real estate company owner called me to tell me that it leads to her other stand-alone web that she has. What the heck? When I click on the ad pic I am taken to the sub-web. I had my Mom try it and she goes to the correct place too. Is this another instance of adware or is there a way to intercept http url requests in transit? Seems like if there was it would happen to everybody.
My website traffic has declined by 20% in the last two months and I am thinking this is why. It was doubling every month before this.
I appreciate any help!
Thanks!
There have been some discussions about this problem. I don't understand the technicalities completely, but AFAIK it's about making redirects in a special way. If page A under some specific circumstances redirects to page B then Google and perhaps some other search engines can be fooled to believe that the content of page B is on page A.
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And the solution? The way I understand it the problem is the way (some) search engines handle redirects. There is nothing you can do about that. But it might help to get more inbound links and thus gaining a higher ranking.
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And the other is probably just plain old adware.
This site and it's members are a great resource! Thanks for your quick reply.
Get your real estate client to install adaware and run it- find out exactly what programs it removes, and then study them.
