What the HECK is this?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by boxer126, Jan 28, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone,
    So I was checking my site's search engine saturation using google's "site:" command and noticed my results jumped from about 301 to over 3,000. I investigated a little and found this. Could someone please tell me what it means keeping in mind my site is an online arcade and these are not my pages?

    http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.allfreeflashgames.com&hl=en&start=450&sa=N

    Any help is appreciated.

    Thanks,
    boxer126
     
    boxer126, Jan 28, 2007 IP
  2. sqeeze

    sqeeze Peon

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    You will be surprised, but I have the same results with my poker sites and I don't know where do these mortgage pages come from.
     
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  3. gid

    gid Peon

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    #3
    It looks like you lost the domain name or something at one point. Look at the cached version of those pages in google.

    Notice: This domain name expired on 01/08/07 and is pending renewal or deletion


    It looks like those were links godaddy used to generate PPC. Did you lose the domain for a short period?
     
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  4. rainborick

    rainborick Well-Known Member

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    An unusally inflated page count - especially when the results show off-topic SPAMmy pages you don't recognize - usually indicates that your site has been hacked. If you run forum, BLOG, shopping cart, gallery, or guestbook scripts on your site, then you need to be vigilant about keeping the software updated and your directories under close scrutiny. Make sure there's nothing in your filespace that you didn't put there or that you don't recognize. Changing your FTP and MySQL passwords would be a good idea as well.
     
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  5. The Stealthy One

    The Stealthy One Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    #5
    Check the META tags of those other sites - it could have to do with that.
     
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    Hey,

    My number of matches on Google change so damn often. Sometimes I only have 500 matches and this has jumped to over a thousand the next day sometimes. I have even tried checking more than once a day and this number changes also. If I submit a new article I've written my numbers the next day will almost double, when my numbers start reaching only near 500 then I know its time for me to write another article and submit it to the major article directories.

    Comments on other peoples blogs have the same result. do a search for "Jeffrey A. Solochek" and you will see.
     
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  7. hhheng

    hhheng Banned

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    I only saw 477 results from the google search.
     
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  8. gid

    gid Peon

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    I see:
    Results 401 - 427 of about 2,870
     
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  9. boxer126

    boxer126 Well-Known Member

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    This seems to be the most likely scenario. Yeah, Godaddy locked me out of my account.....again:rolleyes: ......but I renewed after 2 days of downtime. Thanks for the response. I should've guessed it :p, I just didn't realize something like that would happen so quickly.

    Thanks again,
    boxer126
     
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  10. gid

    gid Peon

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    Yeah, they won’t waist any time trying to get some free PPC. Though I am not saying that is a bad thing. Honestly I have moved to them from all of my certificate purchases and domain name purchases. They just make it easy.
     
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  11. gid

    gid Peon

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    Just one more follow up for you boxer126.
    Have noticed any negative results from the two days of godaddy ppc campaigns? Just curious if google gave any kind of penalty that you have noticed?
     
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  12. SEO Portugal

    SEO Portugal Guest

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    Could be a bug.
     
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