Weird domain redirecting to my blog

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  greenerpasturesind · Member · Aug 14, 2022 at 3:00 pm

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  Hi. Weird problem.

  This domain [redacted] is redirecting to my blog.

  What to do? Does it hurt my SEO and search ranking?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 14, 2022 at 7:35 pm

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  Hi @greenerpasturesind, that is really odd. I don’t have the SEO prowess to tell you whether that alone can affect your site. I am able to tell you it’s a “307” temporary redirect; I’d imagine search engines are ignoring it.

  Are you affiliated with the organization?

  How did you find out about the redirect?

  I’ll also remove the URL from your post and keep it here for staff in case they’re intending something malicious with it later, but right now it is just a 307 redirect.

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  greenerpasturesind · Member · Aug 15, 2022 at 6:01 am

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  Hi.

  No I am not affiliated with that weird website. I found it as a referrer in my stats page.

  Remove it from which post?

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  aleone89 · Staff · Aug 15, 2022 at 8:31 am

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  Hello there,

  Remove it from which post?

  We redacted the link in the forum post above. :)

  It is possible to mark referrers as spam if you feel they’re not legitimate – please see how to do this here https://wordpress.com/support/stats/#marking-spam-referrers

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  greenerpasturesind · Member · Aug 16, 2022 at 7:12 am

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  Thanks. I have marked it as spam. But why is this happening? Its worrying me!