{"id":28439,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/unexpected-redirects\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:47:43","slug":"unexpected-redirects","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/unexpected-redirects\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected redirects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected redirection is search spam in which the visitor ends up on a third-party site they did not choose to visit. Yandex describes it plainly: the redirection is neither obvious nor expected.<\/p>\n<h2>When it happens<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On opening the site from search results \u2014 the classic doorway pattern, where the page that ranked is not the page the user gets.<\/li>\n<li>On interacting with an element of the site, such as clicking what looks like an ordinary button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yandex&#8217;s own illustration is worth keeping: someone looking for a borscht recipe lands instead on a site selling houseplants. The mismatch between intent and destination is the violation, not the redirect mechanism.<\/p>\n<h2>The three-part test for a legitimate redirect<\/h2>\n<p>A redirect is not a violation when it is (1) apparent and obvious to the user, (2) has a clear reason, and (3) neither misleads nor harms them. Redirecting traffic to a redesigned version of the site during testing passes. So does a clearly labelled link or banner leading somewhere else with an evident purpose. Everything outside those conditions is treated as unexpected redirection.<\/p>\n<h2>Why innocent sites get caught<\/h2>\n<p>The most common cause we see is not deliberate. A compromised CMS plugin, an ad script, or a third-party widget inserts a redirect that fires only for visitors arriving from search, or only on mobile devices. The owner never sees it: they reach the site by typing the address, on a desktop, already logged in. Every internal test passes and the violation is real.<\/p>\n<h2>How to find and fix it<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Load the site as a search visitor would: a mobile user agent, referrer from a search result, no cookies, no session.<\/li>\n<li>Audit every script that can navigate the page \u2014 plugins, tag managers, ad scripts, chat widgets, anything added by a third party.<\/li>\n<li>Check that link destinations match what the link text and the surrounding page promise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then submit for review with a description of what was removed. Reinfection after a partial cleanup is common, and a second failed review costs 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected redirection is search spam in which the visitor ends up on a third-party site they did not choose to visit. Yandex describes it plainly: the redirection is neither obvious nor expected. When it happens On opening the site from search results \u2014 the classic doorway pattern, where the page that ranked is not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":15,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[755],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28439","ar_ykb","type-ar_ykb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_ykb_kategori-site-security-and-violations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_ykb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29030,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28439\/revisions\/29030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28439"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}