Anyone know what this site is up to?

OTA = Online Travel Agency, which means those sites that sell the booking and take the payment for you.
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Anyone know what this site is up to?

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During a routine Google check we found we appeared on this site:

villa-place.co.uk/classified_listings.htm

which we know nothing about.

Anyone know who they are or what they're trying to do (besides trying out imaginative spelling variations)? Or am I being naive?
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Hi

There are an increasing number of sites like this.

The purpose is to create a site that is likely to attract many visitors by using popular subjects and keywords in the hope that you will click the google ads at the top. They have automated links for each topic, and often do well in the google positioning.

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Post by Mountain Goat »

Thanks mpprh. OK, I get it. Cool.

So having a 'link' like that actually doesn't do us any harm in the eyes of a search engine?

Goat

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Hi

I don't think there is a problem with this. Iit is not an exchange link farm ........ more a directory.



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