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Our site is experiencing some apparently random days of very low traffic from Google which is causing concern. We are looking at all sorts of possibilities, one of which is competitors sites pushing ours down the results but there seem to be a whole load of new spammy listings for some of our key phrases which previously delivered traffic.

A member of our team in Australia sent me a message saying "Check out the result with the blue stars! How do they do that???"

Now, I got no blue stars but there are some really rancid looking things going on with results that appear totally different at first read but all pointing to the same site & if I try to view the google cache they manage to redirect from the usual cache page with highlighted words to their home page quite quickly.

A check on their backward links & similar sites shows a network of "sex tourism" sites & gambling sites most of which employ similar redirects for their cached results.

Search string:
Accommodation Southern Highlands Australia
google search result

Australia are not at work at the moment but I guess that the results he meant include this one:

★ Accommodation in Southern Highlands Australia ★
Search: Accommodation in Southern Highlands Australia, Date: This
Month. Found ... Accommodation in Southern Highlands,Australia. Link ...
accommodation-in.gofuzion.com/Australia/Accommodation%20in%20Southern%20Highlands%20Australia/ - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

If I repeat the search with our company name the top 2 results are:

★ Accommodation in Southern Highlands Australia ★
... southern highlands hotels Found by: Teoma | NEW www.totaltravel.com/localguides/sou...ighlands/hotels 62 ... Accommodation in Southern Highlands. ...
accommodation-in.gofuzion.com/Australia/Accommodation%20in%20Southern%20Highlands%20Australia/ - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

★ Hotels in Southern Highlands Australia ★
... Found by: Teoma | NEW www.totaltravel.com/localguides ... coast (NSW) southern
highlands (NSW) sydney ... accommodation deals in Australia - covering the next ...
www.clevelandpd.net/Hotels%20in%20Southern%20Highlands%20Australia/ - 93k - Cached - Similar pages

Does anyone have any idea how & why our url appears in the results?
Is it worth reporting the cache redirects?

"The 'cloaking' is actually just a JavaScript redirect.

Disabling JavaScript, you can see that the cached page is a SERP for 'Accommodation in Southern Highlands Australia'. This SERP appears to have been generated by a human or robot using a meta-search engine (Copernic looks likely). Totaltravel is listed as follows:"