Fake Google search results

  • While looking through my site stats, I noticed that people had been finding my site (a World of Warcraft blog) using some “odd” search terms.

    One example of a search phrase was:
    “WinDvD + Key kostenlos downloaden”

    First of all, I have never mentioned anything related to WinDVD. Second, my site is all in English. Third, I don’t have anything related to key generators, serials, etc which is what the person was probably looking for.

    Now, it’s off enough that they found me that way, but the strangest part is the URL that Google spit back:
    https://www.noggaddicts.com/tag/windvd.7.keygen.or.pach.htm

    If you click on that link, it informs you that the (tag) search didn’t turn up any results, because I have no such tag.

    Any ideas on why this is happening or how to fix it would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to get in trouble with Google for them thinking that I’m trying to pad my ranking.

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  • hmm… was your domain parked for any time? Click the cached page off this:

    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=kostenlos+downloaden+noggaddicts.com&btnG=Search

    This will help you remove the links from Google, btw:

    https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/

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    Strike the questions above regarding parking.

    Judging by the whois and the recent activity associated with your current domain name .. it looks like you just purchased this back in October?

    Thats why those results are in Google.

    Left over garbage from the last owner that had it parked, Im guessing.

    Thread Starter rilus

    (@rilus)

    Yea, I just recently bought the domain. It just strikes me as a big coincidence that the past owner of the domain happened to use tags like me.

    Anyway, is there anything I have to do?

    There are things you can do; i already provided the link to Google’s ‘webmaseter’ site that instructs you on, and links to removing outdated links.

    If it were me, I would keep an eye open for similar hits and remove them as they come up. I wouldnt lose sleep over anything though.

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