My site in google reads http://www.freshwaterdiscusfish.com/?hop=pdelight09 should just be http://www.freshwaterdiscusfish.com has my site been hijacked????? any help here is greatly appreciated.
When I do a site search, I find the following four pages: # freshwater discus fish,Breed Discus Ultimate Freshwater Discus Fish Guide, Raising discus guide for all levels of expertise. www.freshwaterdiscusfish.com/?hop=pdelight09 - Cached # freshwater discus fish,Breed Discus Ultimate Freshwater Discus Fish Guide, Raising discus guide for all levels of expertise. www.freshwaterdiscusfish.com/?hop=cbengine - Cached # fresh water discus fish,Breed Discus Ultimate Fresh water Discus Fish Guide, Raising discus guide for all levels of expertise. www.freshwaterdiscusfish.com/?hop=bbtype - Cached # fresh water discus fish,Breed Discus Ultimate Fresh water Discus Fish Guide, Raising discus guide for all levels of expertise. www.freshwaterdiscusfish.com/?hop=0 - Cached If you notice, the last one has no hop associated and I doubt CB engine is hijacking you. I don't know enough about web stuff, though, to tell you why it looks like this... EDIT: I just did a site search for some other affiliate products, and they have the same results. It looks like google is able to index individual hop links, probably based on backlinks people are creating from their own landing pages (my guess). I wouldn't worry about it... and http://www.freshwaterdiscusfish.com works just fine as well, when I click through to the order page without using an affiliate link it tells me affiliate=none.
It's normal, google indexes stuff like that. However, what google is showing is not an affiliate link. An affiliate will not get credited if the user clicks any of those links. If the customer has no affiliate link cookied on his browser and he clicks that google link and goes on to buy the product, you'll get the full commission
hijacked? hell no Google just indexed those pages, these guys are probably sending adwords traffic on your website if you want to block pages like these, use robots.txt to block them Chill out, there is nothing to worry about
Looks like your affiliates are doing a better job promoting your book than you are. Nothing to be unhappy about, actually.
Yes or maybe they just submitted their hop link to Google and it picked them up, this happens sometimes if anything when they get sales it will raise your gravity.
Nobody is hijacking anything. However you can do a simple PHP script that would eliminate ?hop=xxxx from your URL. I wish more vendors did it or that clickbank would turn it off by default since few websites actually use this parameter and it does look ugly and sometimes scares customers.
It seems google just cached the same page under different urls. But I'm not sure about possible duplicate content penalty. But anyway, that penalty is not so important for an affiliate-driven site.