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My Website is Redirecting When Clicked from a Search Engine

If your website always redirects to an unknown site whenever people click on your listing in search engines, there is a high probability that your site may have been hacked.

Redirects are based on the http referer and as so the redirects won't happen if you just visit the site directly.

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