GTOPSTATS.COM / GTOP.RO FRAUD SITE STATISTIC SITES

Interesting title ... right? Okay. It is no joke. Gtop.ro si Gtopstats.com is one and the same service Ranking and Statistics for websiteSites. After some time doing a review the praise GTop / GSTATS for their performance and hope to be one of the few Romanian service which while not disappoint.

Well, did not resist too much "glory" and they fell into sin. What they do is worse than virus which haunted blogosphere in spring-summer. Specifically, All sites are in the top GTOP.RO and / or GTOPSTATS.COM become direct referrer of these two sites to the largest search engines. This is equivalent to a referrer link offered by each registered site. That would be the first fraud and not very serious (Google Page Rank is a better index of the two sites in search engines), but the next is even better.

In Monitoring script (the one that each site owner must add after signing up for GTOP), administratorul placed this statistics service in the file gTOP.js codes less orthodox.

This is how monitoring script:

var SITE_ID = 6987;
<script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript” src=”http://fx.gtop.ro/js/gTOP.js“>

GTop.ro - where do you position yourself?

In the file there is a gTOP.js pop-up script (Besides the referrer) that run only visible when metered site is open in a page "frame"(Eg Google Images). All visitors to a site that is registered in gtop.ro or gtopstats.ro are greeted by a pop-up open site bioget.com (site that belongs administratorgtop.ro/gtopstats.com). Many will say that you use GTOP and that your sites are doing very well and that there are no problems like this. OK. If the site has cookies on your PC and is not tested in a frame, this is impossible to detect.

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Code:

if (cleartogo == 1) {transdata.src = src; document.getElementsByTagName ('head') [0] .appendChild (transdata);} else {ppop = getCookie ('psp' + site_id); if (parseInt (ppop )! = 1) {Set_Cookie ('psp' + site_id, '1', '1', '/', ”,”); newwindow = window.open (“http://www.bioget.com”, ' bioGET ');

If you site indexed images in Google Images, you can test this very simple. Are you looking for a picture of your website on Google Images and open the page.

For example:

- search on Google Images "Ymvista.com" (at the time when he was in the source code GTOP)

- when the page in ymvista.com was opened through the Google Images frame, here's what pop-up nice appeared to me:

Notice how a IE7 tab appeared BioGet.com (I have IE set to open "new windows & pop-up ”in the new tab). This would not be visible to someone who would normally access the site (do not enter through it page frame) And would bioget.com cookies.

You can test here piticu.ro - piticu.ro Google Images and for arhiblog.ro - arhiblog.ro. Both are top blogs in calsamentul Gtop.ro.

This code is not a day or two in java source gtop.ro. The problem was signaled by two people, almost a month ago, only those people have not realized what was really going on and were not taken into account. See these topics on softpedia.com: GTOP do donkeys? and on error.ro: Gtop.ro Case Study - I Also Discovered A Trick In Their Code. The latter received an answer very close to the truth:

kaySuperstar-. (10 / 21 / 2008 1: 15: 56 AM): I apologize for the popup from gtopstats. I have not noticed than yesterday, hopefully not older than a few days. It seems that the gtopstats found it a good way to earn a few visitors a day if implements this popup (which obviously opened page dance) with their script, one for statistics. Or maybe it was always honest I did not know, otherwise we would not have used their services. We do not want to make browsing this site difficult or annoying for our members and visitors. As I said, I noticed this yesterday. Obviously the only thing that could be done was remove script gtopstats portal page.

The consequences of this fraud?

Google Search does not accept pop-ups on websites in any way. The results are traffic declines si Google Pagerank degradation for sites submitted in gtop.ro or gtopstats.com. By default this leads to decrease of income from advertising (On websites selling online advertising).

* Traffic Explosion bioget.com After which administratorul concluded that it would be appropriate to "promote" its site in this way:

* traffic monitored by Alexa. bioget.com vs. stealthsettings. Com.

I admit that I have minimal knowledge of JavaScript (JS). If anyone is able to analyze and come up with gTOP.js code details can download it from here and leave a comment. Thank You!