What are you looking for?

You have reached an invalid web address at Downstrike.com.  On some other web site, you'd probably be told to correct the spelling of an address that you never spelled to begin with.  To Downstrike, that seems rather insulting, so we'll skip that nonsense.

Skip the explanation too, if it's boring you.

The reality is that the search engines, at the provocation of Downstrike's web host, have generated hundreds of fake URLs on the Downstrike.com domain.  This happened because Downstrike's web host changed how their platform handles broken links.  Instead of forwarding the web browser to the error page Downstrike designated, the host now spoofs the designated error page into the location of the broken link.

Not knowing that, Downstrike created an error page that had relative links to other parts of the web site.  The validity of relative links assumes that the location of the source file in the web site remains constant.  The first time a broken link occurred in a sub-folder in which the error page was not meant to reside, the error page displayed in a location where the relatively linked files did not exist when a search spider visited.  The spider then followed those broken links and the web host spoofed yet more copies of the error page.

All the spoofed copies of the error page, like the original error page, contained links to files in particular folders at Downstrike.com.  However, the spoofed locations of the error page caused the relative links to other folders to point to locations where those folders did not exist.  So when the search engines spidered the spoofed files in that nonexistent folder, the error page contained relative links to the folders in yet more locations where they did not exist, starting the process over again.

By the time Downstrike caught on to what was happening, the web host had spoofed more than 1500 - and counting - copies of the error page in untold numbers of non-existent folders.  Meanwhile, the rank of Downstrike's web pages in the search engine results plummets because not only do the search engines penalize the web site for what they interpret as "doorway pages", but they penalize for having so many broken links, as well.

Intelligent person that you are, you may well ask, how can the search engine spiders recognize that these links are broken, and still follow the broken links on the error page that is spoofed into the placee of the nonexistent files that break the links?  You would ask that because as Downstrike just noted, you are an intelligent person.

The committees who come up with the guidelines by which search engines operate however, are not individuals, but committees; in other words, groups of people who assemble for the sole purpose of filling the specific need that arises when the stupidity of one person won't suffice.

So far, everyone involved, or at the very least, you and I, are annoyed about these nonexistent web pages, right?  Fine, let's go find a Downstrike.com web page that really exists: