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**link6** · 01-19-2011, 10:19 PM

When I click on the link recorded in the statistics that tracks visitors it simply takes me to my site, it means someone sometimes can directly turn to the website by something www.google.com/url. However, the site hasn't been included in the directory.google.com and www.dmoz.org? Why can people do that?

**Benmoore47** · 01-20-2011, 02:51 AM

I do not have an idea. I never tried doing such thing. Any answers mate? Who else experience such thing?

**link6** · 01-20-2011, 08:44 PM

Quoted people's same question:

What does www.google.com/url mean as the "Referring Address" in the stats for my blog?
When I click on the link it simply takes me to my own blog.
Does this mean someone has used the Google search function on my blog to locate a post?

**Benmoore47** · 01-20-2011, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Does this mean someone has used the Google search function on my blog to locate a post?

Well, its possible. Google is the hosted url where your blog is being clicked at.

**link6** · 02:01 AM

Benmoore47,

Seaching the internet, mine is the same as the description of someone.
After all, it benefits people's website traffic. I do want to know what on earth the source is.

**Benmoore47** · 01-25-2011, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by link6

Benmoore47,

Seaching the internet, mine is the same as the description of someone.
After all, it benefits people's website traffic. I do want to know what on earth the source is.

If it is steeled content from you then you can report it to Google for penalization.

**emaginationz** · 01-27-2011, 06:10 AM

http://www.google.com/url is of no use. This page does not exist, instead http://www.google.com/addurl is effective, you can submit your new website to google manually.

**Caitlyn** · 01-27-2011, 06:54 AM

Nice discussion. i have added my url in google. but i have not yet checked

**forumaddicted** · 01-28-2011, 01:45 AM

http://www.google.com/url this web address don't exist actually.

**chrishirst** · 01-31-2011, 04:05 AM

The OP does NOT mean a referrer of www.google.com/url as a literal value.

She/He means a referrer of www.google.com/target_website_address.tld

And it occurs when a Google toolbar/Firefox/Chrome user mistypes a URL such as www.webmaster-talk.cob and Google delivers an interstitial page to the browser suggesting an alternative.
The link then redirects via Google.com so that Google can monitor their suggestion accuracy.