Ok so I discovered something. I do not know if this is something that people already knew, or something obvious I never learned about. Maybe this only works on the this one case with one of the clients I work with. Due to NDA I cannot disclose the web site. Basically I found a weird URL in the SERPS. It was a URL that we had 301 redirected to a better url (hyphens and kw rich). Upon closer inspection I realized that the url had two backslashes at the end of it.

I thought this was weird so I tried this technique with other pages on this domain. By simply adding to backslashes to the URL that was supposed to be 301 redirected I got to see the page without going to the new URL. I even used the Server Header tool and my findings were confirmed with a 200OK.

Just so you know I tried this with another client we used 301 redirects with that had super dynamic URLs before hiring me. Unfortunately, the double backslah technique did not work with Dynamic URLs.

Let me know if anyone else has seen something similar?

Once again, I received another spam letter to one of my websites: Enjoy!

Hi,

I just landed on your blog and found it to be very informative and interesting. I congratulate you for creating such a wonderful blog. Most of our moderators are a regular visitor of your blog. I would be highly obliged if you would spare some precious moment of yours and allow us to contact you for giving an interview or to review your blog in a finance community site having 100K+ members.

Know more from http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/

http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/interviews/ (interview)

http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/ranking-chart/blogs/ (blog review)

Please let me know your choice and mail me at julimith@gmail.com

Regards

Julie

With a few tweeks this letter may have fooled me. Here is all they would have to do. Have a scraper look at the title of my blog and replace “your blog” with “blog name”

The last sentence is a total run on and doesn’t even make sense. If you are going to spam you should still try a little, I cannot imagine anyone taking this kind of BS serious.