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<tagline mode="escaped" type="text/html">Everyone, and their dog, is blogging. Unfortunately I don't have a dog, so I have to do the blogging myself.

Utter Bollocks is a blog that serves no serious purpose, but there again very few blogs do serve any purpose, other than the promotion of the blogger.</tagline>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.utterbollocks.com" xml:space="preserve">Here is another very large directory,&lt;a href="http://www.ubbi.com.br/"&gt; Ubbi&lt;/a&gt;,  that comes up when you "allinurl" query Google.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I take as an example a random site and query their allinurl. This is for &lt;a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=allinurl%3Awww.travelforkids.com"&gt;TravelForKids.Com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the entries for their site comes up as &lt;a href="http://www.ubbi.com.br/resultados.asp?q=related:www.travelforkids.com%2FFuntodo%2FEcuador%2Fecuador.htm&amp;origen="&gt;Ubbi&lt;/a&gt; , but a different page in the &lt;a href="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:uKTefH_ee-IJ:www.ubbi.com.br/resultados.asp%3Fq%3Drelated:www.travelforkids.com%252FFuntodo%252FEcuador%252Fecuador.htm%26origen%3D+allinurl:www.travelforkids.com&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;Google cache for Ubbi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The difference in the given urls for the direct link and the cache amount to a space in the cached link between the "www" and "travelforkids.com" on Ubbis site. If you remove the space, then obviously you end up back at the original Ubbi page&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cannot get anything out of the headers to give me a clue as to what is happening, and the Google removal tool will not accept a URL with a space (I do not seem to get anywhere by inserting html code for a space instead of the space)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There must clearly be a cloaked redirect for Googlebot, but I cannot tease out what it is. The site serves up one page for the cache, another for the direct link.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think there is a 302 here, the links nowhere take one to the "target" site directly. However, I suspect that there is a harming of the ranking of any site caught up in the scam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So basic question "is this just a little mild cloaking or are they harming my ranking?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I tried Claus tests suggested in an earlier blog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=100&amp;q=travel+for+kids"&gt;Query the site name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=100&amp;amp;q=site:www.travelforkids.com"&gt;site:www.travelforkids.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These both show these is no gain for the directory in "controlling" my position in the rankings. So again a little "harmless" cloaking that is making them money from advertisers, but appears not to be actually harming my own sites.</content>
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