Weird observation about external links w/ PHP redirects...

[GeorgR.]

As so many others i use stadard PHP redirects for my affiliate links.

Eg...mysite.com/some-product.php ---> 301 header redirect to vendor page.
Something pretty common.

What i think is odd that sometimes i see what is actually an external link listed in Google listing as attributed to my site.

For example i have web hosting afflinks on my site. The EXTERNAL site mentions "premium web hosting", i myself dont use the phrase on my site at all. But i can look for it on Google and it looks like Google thinks this is one of my posts/pages.

Why is this so odd?

Since a normal, standard PHP header redirect should never be able to fool google...or attribute the content of the external site to my site.

In fact, i am really surprised it does that...if this is the case i wouldnt have a reason that i made ASQ (my own product) in the first place, just using a PHP redirect and google "thinks" its my pages?

I wonder what happens if i make a site and ONLY put standard PHP redirects on it to whatever clickbank products...whether my site would be indexed and rank for whatever is on those external sites? this is really odd!

[Ryan Kole]

I love it, sounds great... if it's actually possible. You should test it to see what happens, it's highly unlikely and I suspect nothing will happen, but you never know.

It would turn out to be a major flaw in the algorithm & system of Google (possibly caused by the new update).

[GeorgR.]

Testing this right now, i made a test site. I have some theories. Waiting for it to get indexed and then see what happens.