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It’s not “domain parking” – that is when you simply register a domain and put it somewhere, usually for sale, like Sedo (.co.uk) or Afternic, undeveloped.
My guess is you clicked one of the sponsored links in Yahoo. Looks like someone has set up PPC with their affiliate tag in place to redirect to PP.
The alternative is cloaking. The page may detect the source of the click and if it comes from one place, goes to A and if the referrer is another goes to B. This can be used legitimately but in this cae is what they call “Black Hat SEO” and likely to cause more problems than it solves!
I have seen something like that before as well, and it’s definitely cloaking. When you type in the domain, everything is fine, but when you click on the link from the search engines, it redirects you automatically to a poker room.
One has to especially pay attention to this when exchanging links, as the sites doing that usually try to exchange links with webmaster and if you don’t check the site from the search engines, you will not know that they are doing the cloaking! It happened a couple times to me already!The site is also getting links via comment spamming. Unfortunately, Yahoo still rewards site for such tactics. It’s much harder in Google.
