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    • sunvary
      sunvary last edited by

      Someone (maybe my Competitors) open a subdomain  on  tumblr.com.

      Just like keywordxxx.tumblr.com , and use following script to redirect to my website.

      var s=document.referrer; if(s.indexOf("google")>0 || s.indexOf("bing")>0 || s.indexOf("yahoo")>0 || s.indexOf ("aol")>0){ self.location='mywebsiteurl'; }

      so , If anyone seach in google ,and click on keywordxxx.tumblr.com , this script will direct the user to my website.   I have found many cases like that, is that harmful ? how can i avoid that?

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      • MichaelC-15022
        MichaelC-15022 last edited by

        Well, most certainly Google would consider that to be cloaking on the tumblr subdomain.  I'm not sure that the algorithm would spot this and find it to be a problem, but if I were a Google spam engineer, and asked to look at this, it would be very hard to convince me that it wasn't set up deliberately to build traffic to your site.  I would disavow that tumblr subdomain (the subdomain only, e.g. keywordxxx.tumblr.com, DO NOT disavow tumblr.com!).

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