Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'hijack'

Webmasters Report Proxy Hijacking No Longer an Issue at Google

WebmasterWorld moderator posted a detailed thread at WebmasterWorld claiming that he feels the proxy hijacks that Google has suffered from in 2007, and was getting better towards the end of 2007 seems to be 100% cleaned up now. IncrediBill concluded:...

Has Google Fixed the Proxy Hijack Problem? Google.com Cleaner

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that many of the proxy highjack pages for your domains have been removed from Google. Proxy highjack pages are basically pages that try to outrank yours for the same keyword phrases, and thus replace your pages...

Reports of More Google Hijacks via Proxy Sites

In late 2004 and early 2005, page hijacks were a huge concern with Google. Back then, sites used a 302 redirect to take over a susceptible page within the search results. Marcia reports at Search Engine Watch Forums that the...

Should New Sites Be Wary of Directories With 302 Redirects?

Update From Matt Cutts of Google: It's definitely not related to the 302 on hotfroguk.co.uk though. See Matts full explanation below. A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has a thread about a site that appears to be hijacked within the...


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