Google redirector broken; Are you losing traffic?


An anonymous tipper just told me about this: Log into your Google account, make sure you have personalized search turned on and then search for [inurl:read.php? mysql] and click on the first result. You’ll get a redirector script message like the one below:

Redirect Notice. The previous page is sending you to URL. If you do not want to visit that page, you can return to the previous page.(click for full size)

How many people do you think click that link? No doubt sites are losing traffic this way.

Anyone else out there facing the same issue? Yes, many more. To find them, search for [forum inurl:read.php?]. The issue seems to be special characters (commas) in the URLs.

Check your sites folks.

Update: The referrs coming from the notice will be different from the ones if the direct search result was clicked and worked. So it will show up clearly in your log files.

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