I've seen those too.....I came accross one that forward to DMOZ and tried to sell me a link to a PR7 page for $50 I'm sorry I lost the url
Exactly what happened - can you believe some dumbass would be stupid enough to infringe on the copyrights of a multibillion dollar company? Freaking moron.
That was a black hat trick but now the algoritms of search engines is update and ignoring this. If you read the the Webmaster guidelines at Google: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html, you'll notice that sneaky Redirection pages are not welcome. (This does not include the 301 redirect.) Sneaky redirection pages are set up in in groups of 10 or 20. They all target similar and related keywords or phrases. The only links on these pages are links to other pages in the same family creating a false sense of related linking. They do not contain content that any human would be interested in. These pages was show up high in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). When you click on one of these pages from a search engine result, you will be redirected to another page. (Usually a high PR pages -google,dmoz) .The algoritm of search engine think that is the page and indexing the fake page with high pr.
No. I have a web page, a junk page and I redirect the page let say to www.dmoz.com/index.html or something else. www.dmoz.com/index.html have a PR 8 page. The search boot come, index my junk page then jump www.dmoz.com/index.html and think that my junk page is www.dmoz.com/index.html and registred with a PR8 page.Then after a time I remove the redirection to www.dmoz.com/index.html and I have a junk web page with a PR8. This trick was working with Google search boot , but I think they update the algoritms, or maybe not If they see this redirect you will be banned.
did anybody when they went to this page get 2 pop-ups that wouldn't close? it just happened to me, and my computer made funny "boop" noises when i tried to close them. CTRL + ALT + DEL buttons i use too often....