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    Posted: 20 June 2011 at 10:24pm
I've been using the Google Webmaster Tools to get an idea of how people are searching my site.  It's worked well and free.  This past week I noticed something very strange.
 
At least three other websites running Web Wiz Forum seemed to have linked to my /forum/help.asp page and /forum/registration_rules.asp pages.
 
Has anyone ever seen this occur before? Perhaps this is some sort of Google index bot error?
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Not sure how accurate the linking is. According to webmaster tools an old domain we use to use for web wiz but not for the forum link to the forgotten_password.asp page 8,718 times! Considering the domain is not used anymore I know this is completely incorrect.

The only thing I can suggest is that you look at the websites that are supposed to be linking to your own to see if you can actually find these links, if they exist.
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I couldn't find the links at all. I am wondering if this is some sort of search bot confusion issue.  In one instance the site has 188,514 links to my /forum/help.asp, or so it says.  The other site is around 11,000 link and the third site is around 6,000 links.  It seems doubtful that these three sites would just randomly link part of the forum.  I get the impression the search bot some how decided to transpose domains during the search.  Was just wondering if anyone else has seen the behavior.  Prior to this it seems as if it had been accurate.  I'll have to run Webalizer and see what it comes up with from the sites log files.
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