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I've noticed something similar, we have a range of products that are 'Made to measure' but based on a standard design, but we also have a service where we manufacture bespoke designs - i.e. send a picture of sketch and we can provide a price and ultimately make it.

Google is now seeing 'Made to measure' and 'bespoke' as one and the same.

I wonder the same thing - is there anything I can do about it!

Hi Tom,

That was my instinct to be honest, leave it and see what happens as I don't want G to go digging and find anything else that I've not found myself - just wanted a different view

Bit pee'd off really as I 100% did not gain/add these links myself - always steered away from stuff like that

Would also be interested if anyone has had luck using the disavow tool before any penalties or warnings, be handy to know!

Ted

Hi,

I've been rooting around my GWT account and noticed two what may be dodgy links, they look like a blog network - no contact details on the site and basically just blog posts about various subjects that all contain keyword rich links.

The two that are pointing at me are two seperate articles on two sites that both contain around 3 keyword links to our website.

I have no idea why these are linking to me as I have not requested them, so not too sure if someone has done this on purpose on what! Looked on the sites in question and there is no way of contacting the person responsible for the sites.

Not had any warnings yet (touch wood) in GWT, how you you go about trying to get shut of links when there is no contact info on the sites?

Bit wary of using the Disavow thing in Google as some people say go for it while others say avoid?

Any hints/tips would be welcomed as this has got me a bit worried!

Cheers

Ted

Got it working! Should have cleared my cache first!

Cheers

Ted

Hi Paul,

Got it working, should have cleared my cache first! Tried Fetch as Google and it works!

Thanks for your help!

Ted

Hi Paul

Just tried and it didn't work, when looking in the html code the link appears as the following

http://www.example.co.uk/blue<u>berry_pie.htm

Would I stick the '' in before each of the % signs?

Cheers
T

Thanks text marketing, the question is how as because of the strange within the link it does not seem to work when I set up the 301 redirect.

Hi,

Just cleaning up some 404 errors in my site in GWT and noticed a couple of external links pointing at me that are wrong.

Basically they are from a couple of DIY forum sites (I've not put these links in place myself they are 100% natural) and it appears that the owners of the forums amend the links (inserting characters into link) so they are not quite right.

How would I go about redirecting the following -

www.example.co.uk/blueberry_pie.htm

Whatever I try doesn't work and I always end up with a 404!

Cheers
J

Hi Takeshi,

I only need to get 2 redirects working, so I thought a plug in was a bit overkill.

They are already present in the htaccess file from the previous site (I'm running wordpress from a sub-folder but switched everything over as per the wordpress instructions.

Got the following which doesn't seem to work (any ideas what is wrong?)

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.newsite.co.uk" [R=301,L]

The above should redirect from example.co.uk OR www.example.co.uk

to www.newsite.co.uk

and the is that is giving me a few problems is

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^newsite.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.newsite.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^oldpage.htm$ "http://www.newsite.co.uk/new-page.htm" [R=301,L]

That should redirect from newsite.co.uk/oldpage.htm

to newsite.co.uk/new-page.htm

All these are already existing redirects done previously through my htaccess file but not too sure if the coding is correct for a wordpress based site but the last one above does not seem to be working at all!

Any ideas would be great and a big help!

Cheers
Ted

Converted site  to wordpress and having a bit of trouble with re-directs not redirecting.

Could somebody tell me whether redirects go before the

`# BEGIN WordPress`

or after the 

# END wordpress

or immediately after this bit -

<code># BEGIN WordPress
 <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /</ifmodule></code>

section of the code within my htacess file?

Just wondered if this is the cause of my problems!

Cheers
Ted