http://www.xxxxxxx.com/warning_this_is_english_domain_to_solve_this_problem_submit_site_in_atoall.com.html

Now, this concerned me… because I had never, never heard of this URL on my site before. Where the heck would that have come from? So I went and started doing some searches… and this is what I found:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22warning_this_is_english_domain_to_solve_this_problem_submit_site
_in_atoall.com.html%22&pws=0&hl=en&num=10

So, to me, there are some warning flags being thrown up here. There are over 15,000 indexed pages showing up with that URL string. And something about that simply doesn’t sound right.

I threw this out on Twitter last night, and the always helpful Angie (@AngsCopywriting) pointed out to me that if you looked at the Google cache of the site “SpeedTV.com” (one of the sites effected) and scroll to the bottom, you can see a link containing the offending anomaly (click to see larger image)…

Also, if you go to the site mentioned in the URL (Atoall.com), you can see that it looks… well, less than savoury. Actually, you know, I was going to just nofollow the link to it, but I’d rather not even go that far… I’ll just paste the address here in plain text: http://atoall.com/New.html… up to you whether you visit or not. That page is SFW, but I can’t guarantee the same for the rest of the site, especially with links like “Hot Girls Pics” and “Hot Cute Boy Images” linked off of that page. Use your own discretion.

So, here’s my question: Have you checked into your Google Webmaster Tools account recently? Seen anything suspicious like this showing up? I know of at least one other friend who has had the same 404 show up on his site, so I’m thinking there’s a good chance if you’re reading this, you might have found it looking for answers to the strange “Atoall.com” query. If you have had experience with it, please share your insights below. All I know is… something doesn’t smell right here.