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More options Jan 18, 3:20 pm

From: JLH

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:20:13 -0800 (PST)

Local: Fri, Jan 18 2008 3:20 pm

Subject: Re: "In your site's content" isn't really on my site!

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They were when I checked, I didn't just make that stuff up. A file
doesn't have to phsically reside on the server to be shown that's what
scripts and code do.

On Jan 18, 2:16 pm, Geoff Fox wrote:

> Try entering the link by hand. I get a 404 error. It's not really
> there.

> On Jan 18, 2:32 pm, JLH wrote:

> > How about pages like this?

> >http://www.geofffox.com/MT/archives/src=%22http://www.geofffox.com/MT...

> > You've got some hack on your server.

> > On Jan 18, 1:12 pm, Geoff Fox wrote:

> > > As I reported to this group a few weeks ago, I have been removed from
> > > Google's index. It happened within a few hours of reporting weird
> > > search results from my site to this group. No good deed goes
> > > unpunished!

> > > Here's my original post:http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/browse_...

> > > I've gone through my site, looking for anything that might upset
> > > Google. It's tough, because my site (mainly a personal blog with over
> > > 2,600 entries and 3,000 comments) plus a photo gallery, was clean to
> > > begin with.

> > > Some of you found a few spammy comments which I missed when they were
> > > originally posted. They've been expunged. and I appreciate your
> > > help. Still, that's a handful of pages out of thousands.

> > > It would be easier to search and purge if I had Google to use. Oops.

> > > My journey for redemption continues. I went looking through the
> > > webmaster tools and found the list of keywords "In your site's
> > > content." Uh oh. Problems here.

> > > Many of the words are spammy. But they're not on my site and never
> > > were! There are lots of inbound spammy keywords as well. However,
> > > when I type link:geofffox.com there are just 'normal' non-spam
> > > websites.

> > > I'm really confused.

> > > The search results (site:geofffox.com) I saw, which prompted my
> > > original posting looked like they were on my site, but they weren't.
> > > They could only be reached by clicking the Google link. Typing the
> > > same URLs by hand produced 404 errors.

> > > I searched my server. The spammy content wasn't there.

> > > I am confused and I am upset. I think I'm being penalized for
> > > something totally out of my control. I suspect, though I don't have
> > > the technical expertise to know for sure, this is a Google problem,
> > > not a 'me' problem. I've still begged for forgiveness using the
> > > reconsideration form.

> > > Is there anyone here who can explain what is going on?

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