I just noticed a similar thing yesterday when I googled "William Lovell Dobie" (with the quotes) to see if my father's name appears in Google Books. I was returned four pages of "hits" but all of them are phony except for the first four links on the first page. Most of these websites don't seem to be selling anything but are just a jumble of text, links and photos which are meaningless. They seem to have grabbed stuff from hundreds of real websites and mashed them all together. Chas. Dobie At 09:29 AM 2/16/2011, J.A. Florian wrote: >Not sure I'm using the right words to explain this... > >I use Google Webmaster Tools. One area it shows are Crawl Errors. The >table/list gives the link URL of my page, then a number for how many pages >show that URL as a crawl error. This tool is supposed to give a webmaster >an easy to view list of errors, so the webmaster can fix the error. > >Today, none of the crawl errors are internal errors (i.e. on my site). >Instead, an outside site created an error by PARTLY using some of my content >PLUS the link URL but with gibberish added so that the URL to MY >content/page is broken. It looks like it's deliberately broken, or the >party doesn't know how to write a webpage. > >Here is an example: > >http://islandparkchurch.org/pjr-hot-topic-boy.html > >More than half-way down that page is a photo of 2 boys stuck randomly into >an unrelated sentence. Hovering over the picture, you get >http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~florian/camps/camp_boys-friends_cr.jpg%22%20width=%2236%22%20height=%2250%22%20alt=%22image%22/%3E%3C/a%3E%3Ca%20href=%22/m/imgres?q=hot+topic+boy > > >Other sites doing this are hosting companies (small ones), I guess as an >attempt to increase their ranking?? > >I called the church one and told them because the "boy" links on their >page get kinda rauchy. > >But, how do I deal with the rest of them? Or, do I let it go? Are the >other websites and the broken links they made hurting my website in Google's >eyes? > >Judy > > > >-- >-- >WASHINGTON COUNTY PA WEBSITES::: >http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ >Coordinator of the Washington County PAGenWeb: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3447 - Release Date: 02/16/11 Charles Dobie, cdobie@superaje.com

They are likely not in the business to be selling but rather luring you into clicking onto their links. Doing so serves a purpose for them either for rankings or worse, searching for targets for malware and viruses. It's good to remember there is usually a motive for everything you find on the Internet, even if it looks to be a mistake. This is my two cents. Ron Yates http://alturl.com/3aada -----Original Message----- From: freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:freepages-help-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Charles Dobie Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 1:25 PM To: freepages-help@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Crawl Errors -- links used by / in Link farms I just noticed a similar thing yesterday when I googled "William Lovell Dobie" (with the quotes) to see if my father's name appears in Google Books. I was returned four pages of "hits" but all of them are phony except for the first four links on the first page. Most of these websites don't seem to be selling anything but are just a jumble of text, links and photos which are meaningless. They seem to have grabbed stuff from hundreds of real websites and mashed them all together. Chas. Dobie