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Old 06-03-2008, 10:39 PM
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Thumbs up Re: "Borrowing" a client's ranking on redirect

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Originally Posted by simonlogan View Post
We recently had to disable all services of a client of ours for non-payment and our host allows us to do this and redirect all traffic to our own site until payment has been received and services re-enabled.

A day or two after doing this I Googled the name of the client (Stagequest) and was perplexed to find our own site at the top of the rankings for this search phrase! The name of the client doesn't appear anywhere on our site's home page and you can still see some pages on their own site listed below us - what's going on? I understand that traffic will be redirected to our site but dont' get how this could affect the search engine ranking for their site?

The client's site is now re-enabled but we are still showing up as the number one hit for the search term "stagequest".

Anyway understand this behaviour?
you see why it has happened from the other replies. looks like your client is messing about. I would point out what is happening and the amount of business they are loosing probably for ever thank them for the extra traffic to your site and wait for quick payment. if not just leave redirect in place until they do!
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