How to find hidden 301 redirect?

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So I've got a method of finding hidden pbn links.

But....how can I find websites that are being powered up by a 301 redirect from an expired domain that has blocked all backlink crawlers....

I can't think of any way of doing this short of actually writing a full on web crawler and checking every domain possible. Which is very costly.
 
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I don't think this is possible without some form of access to the site (even then I'm not 100%), which based on the question I assume you wouldn't have.
Will be interested to see if someone smarter than me comes up with a way of doing so.
 
Satal said:
I don't think this is possible without some form of access to the site (even then I'm not 100%), which based on the question I assume you wouldn't have.
Will be interested to see if someone smarter than me comes up with a way of doing so.
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The only thing I could think of is there might be some ISP data available to show traffic sources for websites and it might pick up the 301. Or toolbar data.
 
The more I think about it the more I think that it's not possible. Even if you had access to the destination website the only thing you would do is look at the referrer and if all the referrers were HTTPS you would just get the domain (though that would be a start).
 
Sounds obvious, but copy and paste the URL into Google. Not in quotes, and not site: , just the normal URL with https://.

Often they'll show up there.
 
I second this. I actually don't know a cheaper way
phatwa said:
Sounds obvious, but copy and paste the URL into Google. Not in quotes, and not site: , just the normal URL with https://.

Often they'll show up there.
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301 redirects can be links that point to any domain but are redirected to a different location.
What you've described won't help find this domains that have a redirect pointed to a particular website.
 
phatwa said:
Sounds obvious, but copy and paste the URL into Google. Not in quotes, and not site: , just the normal URL with https://.

Often they'll show up there.
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Interesting, I didn't know that.

So just for clarification if I buy ProSoccer.com and 301 it to BestSoccerGear.com there is a chance if I enter BestSoccerGear.com into Google it will show the original domain of ProSoccer.com?
 
jamie3000 said:
Interesting, I didn't know that.

So just for clarification if I buy ProSoccer.com and 301 it to BestSoccerGear.com there is a chance if I enter BestSoccerGear.com into Google it will show the original domain of ProSoccer.com?
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A chance, yes, but a) it might on page 20 and b) it might not appear at all.
 
Theoretically "your method" to find PBN should work the same way. I don't see why it may not.
 
phatwa said:
A chance, yes, but a) it might on page 20 and b) it might not appear at all.
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Ooh I see what you mean now. It's not actually a feature of Google, we're just hoping another website/indexer/scraper/crawler picked it up and that information is indexed and appears when we enter the new destination domain.
 
jamie3000 said:
Ooh I see what you mean now. It's not actually a feature of Google, we're just hoping another website/indexer/scraper/crawler picked it up and that information is indexed and appears when we enter the new destination domain.
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Maybe I am not being clear, here is what I meant.

Let's say you want to find out secret.com which is a 301 to moneysite.com. All you would need to do is type in this exactly into Google search:
https://www.moneysite.com

No quotes, no other parameters. Note the <title> of moneysite.com and then look carefully for a match of the same title/description but for different domain i.e. for secret.com

If moneysite.com is high authority, then 301 domain should appear quite high in Google too.

Hope it makes sense.
 
SirLouen said:
Theoretically "your method" to find PBN should work the same way. I don't see why it may not.
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So my method involves basically scraping every page for that niche/search term off Google and checking if it links back to the money site. Unfortunately I don't think it would work for redirects. The only way it might work is if the domains are in the same niche and I follow all the outbound links from all the niche pages I scrape. But I think that would be pretty resource intensive and unreliable :-(

GregFromMoonsy said:
@jamie3000

Please send me the PM with domain name for which you would like to check the redirects ;)

Cheers, Greg.
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Theres no specific domain at the moment, it's just a theoretical question, but thanks for the offer :)

Sorry just double posted, on my phone!
 
The query is simple basically you ask Google to show all links for a given site except not the links that point to that site. You'll end up with SERP that point to that site, if there is redirect involved in a matter of scraping that query.
 
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