Lucy Anscombe wrote:
> Dear all
>
> A 'new' TVU domain appeared in our stats package today -
> http://www.tvu.ac.uk.redirect.keljob.com/
>
> Further investigation reveals that this URL seems to work for any site
> http://www.cam.ac.uk.redirect.keljob.com/
> http://www.salford.ac.uk.redirect.keljob.com/
> http://www.bbc.co.uk.redirect.keljob.com/
> (random sample)
>
> Keljob is a French recruitment site. Presumably this is a way to boost
> their appearance in search engine rankings. Has anyone come across
> this before? How does it work? Can we stop it?
>
This sounds a little bit like the '302 hijack' technique used to steal
your page rank on google. I'm not sure if it still works. The idea is,
their site is associated with yours internally to google's search
algorithm because it redirects to it. Therefore it 'inherits' some of
your google search ranking. When they judge it to be good enough, they
stop the 302 from pointing at you and instead point it at whatever
they're trying to promote.
More at <http://clsc.net/research/google-302-page-hijack.htm>.
However, when I visit <http://www.tvu.ac.uk.redirect.keljob.com/> I am
not 302 redirected to your site. Instead, it appears that they've
mirrored your HTML. It certainly looks like some kind of hijack trick (I
notice a search hit on google is generated when I visit the page too)
but I cannot fathom how it might work.
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Jon Dowland
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