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Cruel way to promote a product
- anonymoushn 15y agoThis is pretty bad. Much of the time, your page (which the user clicked on in Google, for instance) won't be near the top of DDG at all. You're essentially saying "You don't want to go to my page, try one of these other pages instead." It also takes an unreasonable amount of time for DDG to load results, compared to whatever site the user was using.
- sudont 15y agoI agree. Not to mention that a non-technical user would view this the same as an ISP’s DNS redirect page, and think the site doesn’t exist.
- dspillett 15y agoIf I click on a link in Google's results and immediately get a search page, I will assume that the entry in Google is a bogus one that a clever SEO operative has convinced the algorithm into placing above actual relevant content. I will hit the back button and tell Google to filter out results for that site in future. Feel free to do this if you are happy to keep people like me away from your site.
- epi0Bauqu 15y agoPlease note that the poster is not associated with the company.
- Udo 15y agoI'm actually surprised this doesn't happen more often in the world of SEO spam. The obvious way to solve this is for the Google bot to give sites a Google referrer string when it comes to index them. That way the bot would see those sites just as a search user does. Of course that means in the long run, Google bot would also have to pose with a fake USER_AGENT identifier to make sure it actually gets the real content.