IF it was a redirect then no. IF/When the redirect was in place, both humans and bots would be shown the redirected content by the site. Once/IF the redirect is removed, both humans and bots would again be shown the same content by the site.

They key to something like this would be to time the arrival of bot and how quickly they attribute the redirect. Once that happens the redirect is removed.

I keep bolding "if" because I'm speculating. Part of what leads me to believe that this is the case, is the TBPR is showing up as well. Typically, this only going to happen if 301 is put in place. The root will show the TBPR immediately and not have to wait until the next export.

Just to add, I see no real purpose for doing this. There's really nothing to gain by it UNLESS one was trying to fool someone into buying the domain or perhaps links and then it would have to be quickly since everything *should* revert once the site gets recrawled.

ETA... Selling though, doesn't appear to be the motive since the registrar is using it to feed another of their sites. It appears to be a lame attempt to get rankings that won't work.

Again please keep in mind I'm speculating and nothing more.

Dave

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