annie Posted May 25, 2004 Posted May 25, 2004 I was looking for totalchoicehosting resellers in Google (compare what prices they're offering to their customers). I found a few really deceptive results, that ends up at the front page of a webhost instead. I'll just paste in the titles of the deceptive pages (who have a HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently code in the headers): ----- ******** ************ ----- Spamming Google, and using the name of a competitor to do it? That's low! Ah, the guy who owns that service is only 18... Quote
annie Posted May 25, 2004 Author Posted May 25, 2004 Ah! I found 63 Google results when doing this search: totalchoicehosting site:hisdomainname.com He did the same with another host, 68 results. Quote
TCH-Dick Posted May 25, 2004 Posted May 25, 2004 It's called a deceptive redirect and Google has a reporting system for things like this. If some one does this to you all you have to do is report it. Have you ever searched for something and click a link and find yourself on a I AM A SPAMMER site? Things loke this are always going to be there, at least Google gives you a way to try to fight it. http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html Quote
annie Posted May 25, 2004 Author Posted May 25, 2004 I know, I just thought I'd have you guys do it., if you haven't already. I'm not a party to this one. And thankfully few of my patrons have figured out Google bombing! Quote
Head Guru Posted May 25, 2004 Posted May 25, 2004 Some people make thier living by selling ice cream to the little kids in the neighborhood, others stand on that same street and sell the same kids drugs and guns. TCH is selling Ice Cream..... oh well you can fill in the rest of the story. Quote
annie Posted May 25, 2004 Author Posted May 25, 2004 I'm starting to wonder if maybe this thread should be removed entirely before the friendly Googlebot comes by? You won't hurt my feelings... Quote
Head Guru Posted May 25, 2004 Posted May 25, 2004 Open forums these are. I really have no problem with this discussion. Lets remove the url to the other site though. We know who we are all talking about. Quote
annie Posted May 25, 2004 Author Posted May 25, 2004 Well, I didn't post the URL, but of course, the site could be found using the title phrases, so good thinking. Quote
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