@Googleguy - Yahoo Yellow Page Text Ads, Showing up as Google Backlinks

[seomike]

I know Googleguy and Cutts skim the forums here. You may want to check this out.

I was looking up a local business in Yahoo Yellow pages for a phone number. I saw a few of the sponsor links above the local listings and decided to check a few out.

What I found is that the sponsor link websites have yahoo yellow pages showing up as backlinks in Google. Those links go through a redirect and isn't just a strait up hotlink. What the freak?

I also saw a pretty popular franchise with over 700 yahoo yellow page backlinks from multiple geographic listings. I then did a search for their main keywords and sure enough rank 1 across the board.

I'd normally keep this hush hush and use it to my own advantage but I'm in a good mood today :P

[beu]

Yeah, even worse in maps!

[seomike]

Even worse they're 302 redirects being counted as backlinks. With all the trouble they've had with 302's you think it's about time they threw their hands up and stopped crawling them.

[Mel66]

Originally Posted by seomike

I know Googleguy and Cutts skim the forums here.

I thought GoogleGuy *was* Cutts.

[seomike]

Originally Posted by Mel66

I thought GoogleGuy *was* Cutts.

I thought Googleguy was multiple users including Cutts. If it is Cutts hopefully he'll sneak a peak