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Is Someone Hijacking My Traffic???

by bigcat1967
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I noticed yesterday that when I look up my website in the serps - the address is the following:

http://www.bla bla dot com/?hop=ksvpss

The last part of that has me a little scared. The ?hop=ksvpss - isn't that a hop link like to a clickbank site or something??? All I know is that I didn't put it there.

My traffic is the same and I have google ads on it. I've heard of hijacked traffic and all that - maybe that's happening to me??? Just wondering if someone could explain this to me.

Thank you.
#hijacking #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author usta
    When you click the link where it redirects? I think it will be the answer.
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    I think the link is like clickbank hop,But try to visit the url and if it redirects from some where check robots.txt file it might be hacked
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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    well - it's not redirecting - it still goes right to my website. It just now has [domain name] dot com/?hop=ksvpss

    It's landing on my index page - but the address is showing the above. I don't get it...

    I checked my traffic - it's average.
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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    Update: I usually get 10 clicks per day via adsense - the last two days...none.

    Something is going on.
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    • Profile picture of the author usta
      Originally Posted by bigcat1967 View Post

      Update: I usually get 10 clicks per day via adsense - the last two days...none.

      Something is going on.
      Did you check your adsense code on the non wanted url is the publisher id yours ?
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  • Profile picture of the author simonbuzz
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    Maybe your site is hacked...
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  • Profile picture of the author eguynth
    Maybe its a canonicalization url to your homepage? are you using any cms? or eCommerce systems? if so it will have different types of links for homepage. Once google crawls those link it will display them.
    Try redirecting that link to your main homepage url.
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  • Profile picture of the author eguynth
    Also I found some sites with similar links

    bestpimpmyride.com/?hop=ksvpss
    wpnichemarketing.com/?hop=ksvpss
    overcome-social-anxiety.com/?hop=ksvpss
    homeofinternetmarketing.com/.../copywriting-course.htm?hop=ksvpss
    intelligentvirtualagent.com/index-cb.php?hop=ksvpss
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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    bestpimpmyride.com/?hop=ksvpss
    wpnichemarketing.com/?hop=ksvpss
    overcome-social-anxiety.com/?hop=ksvpss
    homeofinternetmarketing.com/.../copywriting-course.htm?hop=ksvpss
    intelligentvirtualagent.com/index-cb.php?hop=ksvpss
    Eguynth:

    Thanks for your help. Yeah - I googled ?hop=ksvpss and saw those sites as well - what do you think is happening?
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    • Profile picture of the author eguynth
      Originally Posted by bigcat1967 View Post

      Eguynth:

      Thanks for your help. Yeah - I googled ?hop=ksvpss and saw those sites as well - what do you think is happening?
      like I said earlier, you might be using some cms or any thing that runs your website on?
      some thing you have installed.
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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    like I said earlier, you might be using some cms or any thing that runs your website on?
    some thing you have installed.
    I'm not using any CMS like WP or Joomla. I did HTML and CSS on notepad and uploaded it to my host - Godaddy. The website is three months old and all of the sudden - I see these "hoplinks" on my index URL.

    Now - I'm seeing backlinks from one place that sells Viagra. I looked up the site - found it that it's a scam place - so I'm thinking something is going on.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      The answer may be simple. Simple speculation, that is.

      Anything in a url with a "?" is ignored by your browser.
      That is, you can put ?=blahblah after any url and it will go
      the the url without the ? stuff.

      The ?= would be read by some database program. It would only
      have meaning if there was something like php getting a value
      and passing it on to a mysql databse. Or similar. If that does not
      exist, than the whole thing is meaningless. You can add ?=anything
      and it will be completely ignored.

      Now the next part is probably the old way of doing CB affiliate links.
      The domain sales page would have instructed you to make the affiliate url:
      salesdomain.com/?hop=cbusername
      It would pass your user name on and you would get credit for the sale.

      Putting both of these together we can "speculate" that a person is just
      grabbing any domain urls that appear to be clickbank products and
      building backlinks using this hoping to steal some sales.

      Again, anything with a ? is ignored if nonexistent. So, if it did not
      pass a value on, the whole thing is pointless.

      Just see where:
      http://www.warriorforum.com/?=blahblahblah
      goes.

      I assume shortly a backlink will be found to the above site.
      But the page is completely meaningless and does not exist, so
      your browser ignores it.

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    • Profile picture of the author eguynth
      Originally Posted by bigcat1967 View Post

      I'm not using any CMS like WP or Joomla. I did HTML and CSS on notepad and uploaded it to my host - Godaddy. The website is three months old and all of the sudden - I see these "hoplinks" on my index URL.

      Now - I'm seeing backlinks from one place that sells Viagra. I looked up the site - found it that it's a scam place - so I'm thinking something is going on.
      About the backlinks, I had a client who's competitor/ex-seo company did the same to him. Build over 10,000 links within a week from Viagra websites. On google results his website results were showing up like "this site might be harmful yada yada"
      If you are getting bunch of these links for that url I would advice you to block that url for the search engines using robot.txt
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    • Profile picture of the author jack jastin
      Originally Posted by bigcat1967 View Post

      I'm not using any CMS like WP or Joomla. I did HTML and CSS on notepad and uploaded it to my host - Godaddy. The website is three months old and all of the sudden - I see these "hoplinks" on my index URL.

      Now - I'm seeing backlinks from one place that sells Viagra. I looked up the site - found it that it's a scam place - so I'm thinking something is going on.

      I think this is due to this type of unwanted and restricted back links as you have mentioned above. Google might be caught your site, Now your concern should be, From Where this scammed back links your site had caught through? I would like to know Had you set up Google analytic for your site?
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  • Profile picture of the author HavenX
    Maybe It's some short url for redirecting your site you shouldn't be worried to much.
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  • Profile picture of the author businesswarrior121
    please contact google for details. i found something wrong in your site. that is not your site what i found right now. you can right that someone hacked your account.
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  • Profile picture of the author xxxJamesxxx
    I noticed yesterday that when I look up my website in the serps - the address is the following:

    http://www.bla bla dot com/?hop=ksvpss
    Not 100% sure but what I think happened is Google indexed a Clickbank Affiliate link

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  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    I would like to know Had you set up Google analytic for your site?
    Yes I do have GA setup.

    UPDATE: I hired a backlinker from Indonesia to do profile links. Welllll - he did a good job doing that, but as far as backlinking from the Canadian Pharmacy website - I asked him if he did it...he didn't answer me. So now the project is complete, the backlinks from the Canadian Pharmacy website is going away (I'm seeing less and less links drop off when I check in Yahoo) and my adsense and traffic is actually doing a little better.

    I think the problem is resolved - except for that crazy hoplink still showing up in the SERPs (added onto my URL).
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