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Google Unauthorized Redirect

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grandma genie

6:31 am on Mar 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Hello,

I wasn't sure where to post this, so if this is the wrong forum, please advise which forum to use.

This only happened today and I haven't seen anything like it before. I was reading my server logs and found a series of different IPs all coming on to my site from the same referer and all going to the same page. It seemed to be Google Images, but when I accessed the link, it was a Google Redirect Notice that said: The previous page is sending you to hnnp://www.mysite.com/products/widgets.html. If you do not want to visit that page, you can return to the previous page.

I couldn't figure out what the previous page was, but when I hovered my cursor over the Google redirect link, it said it was an unauthorized redirect.

I know I have not created any unauthorized links to my web pages. I am assuming this means someone has a webpage with a link that is redirecting to my webpage. But why?

Is this a problem and what should I do about it?

Grandma_genie

phranque

12:32 pm on Mar 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

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"seemed to be" means the url was on the images.google.com subdomain?
if so this most likely means that your page contains an image that ranks well for a popular search term.