February 19th, 2008 by Mrs Eaves
A while back, I noticed that Camera Shy was getting Google hits on some….less than desirable….search terms. Curious to find out why, I clicked on some of the searches and found little tidbits like this:
Okay.
I don’t necessarily like folks searching for such lovelies ending up on my site, so I told Wordpress to block my site from all search engines. Lo-and-behold, the explicit searches keep coming (while legitimate searches are indeed blocked).
Can someone out there help me understand why this is happening, and perhaps even help me to fix it?
February 19th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
How a wholesome site like yours got caught up in the underworld of the internet I will never know. Sometimes — not all the time — you can email google and let them know that their indexing has gone astray. Since they like to keep up the face of being gods of the information universe they can be helpful. I have delt with their tech staff before at work. It is very strange that someone elses content would get linked to your url. Personally I think it is cyber hacking from south east asia. But it may just be a spider/bot gone wild.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
also check other search engines. if it is showing on other search engines I would suspect something a little more sinister. There is a spot on google’s help pages where you can submit your url for them to crawl. Sometimes it just takes them to recrawl it to clear up the problem….
February 19th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Thanks for the ideas, Tim. I went to yahoo, and the same thing is happening. It doesn’t happen on every result, just some of them. Really bizarre. I will try the Google recrawl next.
February 19th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Wow. Let us know if you have any luck!
February 19th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
my sinister thought is that someone is cyber squating on your domain name. that is a little harder to deal with. in fact I don’t know how you would deal with that other than to change your name. try the recrawl — something seems fishy…
February 19th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I looked pretty hard at your source code and I don’t see anything fishy embedded in it. Certainly nothing about naked asian women that are camera shy. Hmmm — it is a mystery…
February 20th, 2008 at 6:13 am
I couldn’t get google to duplicate this for me. What are you using as the search terms?
February 20th, 2008 at 6:59 am
AT, statcounter is logging the hits under its “recent keyword activity”. That’s the only place I’ve been able to find them.
I’m getting them on Ninemonths, too. Most of my hits have been through the German Google.