highjacked on google

[007c]

Has anyone ever been highjacked on google by a pr stealer?
I have reason to beleive this just recently happened to me.
He probly used a useragent redirect also and not sure right now if my rankings have suffered but traffic has slowed down alot.
The guy that did it has the site zobox dot net
Is 100 pages from his site pointing to mine in google webmaster tools without any visible links from his site reason enough to beleive this?

[webia]

I really don't understand what you mean. How did he steal your PR or traffic?

[mac1205]

Originally Posted by 007c

Has anyone ever been highjacked on google by a pr stealer?
I have reason to beleive this just recently happened to me.
He probly used a useragent redirect also and not sure right now if my rankings have suffered but traffic has slowed down alot.
The guy that did it has the site zobox dot net
Is 100 pages from his site pointing to mine in google webmaster tools without any visible links from his site reason enough to beleive this?

What ? Someone hacked your site perhaps?

[007c]

I don't know maybe something similar to:
hxxp://seoblackhat.com/2005/10/20/fake-any-google-page-rank-with-user-agent-redirect/

Was just curious if other ppl that had similar problem had any traffic loss.

What i find strange the site took my exact position from yesthurday in search term and mine has dissapeared. Maybe it's pr update related though.Hope so...

[Natural Elements]

I have a similar problem, they highjacked my site today, I was wondering why half of my site was in supplemental results, did some intensive research and found why.

Once again Google penalize what we cannot master.

The highjacker cannot replace the SSL so no highjack on the payment processing. His site cannot checkout with the stolen site from me because the secure certificate is unique pointed on my domain. So the question is why this person do that? perhaps the pages ranking, or just try to put a big hit on my site with search engines.

I advise you to find a way to report immediately all suspicious activities to the FBI, then other authorities who can stop this kind of people.

I am particurely happy, because there is no credit cards to steal from my site, the process is very secure on paypal and paypal has an efficent security team that can take action immetiately. But nothing is completly secure these days.

Good luck

[bermuda]

I had heard about stealing other people's content, although the copiers will have problems by Google later on, but I have never heard of anyone stealing other sites PageRank???

[charlesgan]

last time i start a post about url redirection hijack in google and yahoo.
but not getting reply. sad

yes its still happening, although they claim google already prevent this.
very obvious at yahoo.

[Natural Elements]

I think it's the time for search engines and the authorities to move their butt to prevent this kind of criminality and not focuing only on their advertising systems.

The net start to be a big trash these days.

[danu]

Google hijacking CAN happen, and today I've noticed that it happened to one of my websites. It is a serious fault in Google SERPS, it's actually unbelievely simple to destroy some body's hard work. AND YES, IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU, IT HAS HAPPEND ALSO TO GOOGLE ADSENSE PAGE

Here is the whole story:

My website: www.pgd-design.com 4 years old, free cd covers, free wallpapers given away to everybody, everything great except try searching in GOOGLE for:

pgd design
http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Notice the first three results:

GIMP brushes free download GIMP brushes + gallery of free desktop wallpapers, original cd covers, photography and basic information about exotic species of fish.
-www.pgd-design.com/gimp/br.php - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

Free cd covers abstract wallpapers exotic fish photography clipart ...... download audio celebrity nature maker design art template printable sleeve jewel creator software dvd. ... PGD Design · Submit this page to DIGG ...
-www.anonymouse.ru/cgi-bin/nph-proxy_ru.cgi/000111A/http/www.pgd-design.com/index.php - 25k - Cached - Similar pages

Abstract wallpapers desktop wallpaper thanksgiving sexy picture ...1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | -. Top 100 Best Sites Vote now! Copyright © 2005 - www.pgd-design.com.
-www.anonymouse.ru/cgi-bin/nph-proxy_ru.cgi/000111A/http/www.pgd-design.com/wallpaper/index.php - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

The home page has been hijacked using 302 redirects...

Also try:

free cd covers
http://www.google.com/search?q=free+...&start=10&sa=N

The result, instead of www.pgd-design.com/index.php:

Free cd covers abstract wallpapers exotic fish photography clipart ...Free cd covers abstract wallpapers exotic fish macro photography clipart gimp music desktop computer download audio celebrity nature maker design art ...
-www.anonymouse.ru/cgi-bin/nph-proxy_ru.cgi/000111A/http/www.pgd-design.com/index.php -

So, my URL, has been replaced in the SERP with another website URL, that is the nature of what is called “GOOGLE HIJACKING” - the indexed content remains the same in SERPS but the URL is different

The way things are right now, I do not lose any traffic, but that URL could also have been changed with a redirect to another website, affiliate link, or worse, an adult website.

I've found on the NET a few articles about how this is happening, the people who wrote those articles explain things in a very simple way, like I've said in the beginning, it's very simple to use 302 redirects to hijack a website position in SERP:

GOOGLE ADSENSE PAGE HIJAKED IN SERP:
http://www.jensense.com/archives/200...adsense_4.html

Page Hijack: The 302 Exploit, Redirects and Google
http://clsc.net/research/google-302-page-hijack.htm

Solution to the problem (in my case, anyway):
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3306064.htm

[adamx8]

How can you detect your site has been hijacked when your traffic isn't more than 100-200 uniques a day? For all I know it would just be a shift. I lost half of my google trafic a month in May for someone reason, but that could be anything.

[danu]

adamx8, loss of traffic may occur because a lot of reasons, not from GOOGLE HIJACKING

You should check in google if your page has been hijacked, in my case, I use the <TITLE> tag to find the hijacked pages:

Free cd covers abstract wallpapers exotic fish photography

The result:

Free cd covers abstract wallpapers exotic fish photography clipart ...
Free cd covers abstract wallpapers exotic fish macro photography clipart gimp music desktop computer download audio celebrity nature maker design art ...
-www.anonymouse.ru/cgi-bin/nph-proxy_ru.cgi/000111A/http/www.pgd-design.com/index.php

Right now you can't see anything at that address because I've blocked the access to my site from -anonymouse.ru

I've also been curios how many pages have been affected by this proxy, the conclusion: GOOGLEBOT IS INCREDIBLY STOOPID try this search:

http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Results 1 - 100 of about 181,000 from -www.anonymouse.ru

[webia]

people will report a lot that website, and eventually it will drop way down from google.