Google Indexing Redirects?

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I've been working on a site that lost a bunch of traffic recently. I noticed that when I did a site:domain.com ALL my affiliate links to Amazon were being indexed, despite passing nofollow+noindex headers.

I ended up removing them all and creating new ones that look like this:
Code: 
domain.com/disallowed-folder/pretty-name

Looking through the SERPs for other sites I'm noticing the same thing.

This is site:wickedfire.com seo

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New? Normal?
 


I've seen WF redirects in search results before, not sure what's up with that. Probably an Illuminati conspiracy.
 
wickedfire.com/redirect.php uses meta refresh, not 301...

google will index meta refresh/window.location, as they are still 200, not 301/302
 
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I have a few web 2.0s that I was spamming with url shortneners/redirects that are ranking for the redirect url themselves while the actual web 2.0 url has been penalized for awhile now.

edit: just read the article tangy posted, it's the exact same thing I've seen in my niches. I've spammed url redirects for awhile now and I've also only started noticing G indexing the redirect url itself probably around late last year. Definitely something to look into for the churners...
 
I have 301's that are getting indexed. They show the Title and Meta of the final destination, but are indexed with my redirect url.

You can see em if you search site: theblackhills.com.

The /calendar/ /hotels/ /jobs/ links.

I'm also getting https pages indexed when I don't fucking want them to be.
 
I am guessing, but the 301's are probably getting indexed because there are links to them, also robots.txt has no rules

User-agent: *
Disallow:
 
ShadowCaster said:
I've seen WF redirects in search results before, not sure what's up with that. Probably an Illuminati conspiracy.
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Would make sense since Jon is part of the Illuminati. Jon probably threw that little detail in at the last minute at the monthly Illuminati meeting and nobody noticed.
 
I can just imagine Matt cutts popping up here commenting "Spam....bullshit....bullshit....spam....not Google's software...."
 
Take this a step further.

Why would an authority/branded website not have its own shortcut url(301) to articles/inner pages?

A url shortner(301) that's based off the root domain/brand

Wouldn't that add Trust? Wouldn't that add Branding? Wouldn't that add authority?

Of course.
 
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