Marcello - 4:18 am on Sep 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

A New Day ... But the saga continues!

TO Frank_Rizzo:
Search Google for "wannabrowser".
under "Agent Selection" use "NetSpider"
UN-Check "Follow Redirects"
Leave "Show HTTP Response Headers" Checked

Yesterday I have send a DMCA-complaint to Google and to Altavista by Fax concerning this matter ... hopefully I will get an answer to this fax.

Today all my more than 8,000 backlinks to my site "www.widget.com" have disappeared.
entering link:www.widget.com now gives as answer:
"Your search - link:www.widget.com - did not match any documents."

So now the hijacking-page must have been completely accepted as "THE PAGE" and as Frank_Rizzo says in message 81, the next step will be that my PR6 will become PR0, resulting in a complete loss of:
- a 4-year old site
- over 80,000 pages
- PR6 ranking
- over 30,000 uniques/day
- 200,000 pageviews/day

All of the above the result of someone adding the following line of code to a not so high-ranking page:
"<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.widget.com/">"

Also Today (its morning here) My pages in the Google-Index have now dropped from over 80,000 pages to less than 40,000 pages. (using site:www.widget.com)

Also Google traffic is 50% less than the normal average from the last 6-months

I am watching Yahoo like a hawk as I am still getting a lot of traffic from them, but the hijacking-page is STILL NOT not in the Yahoo-Index and my www.widget.com page is still ranking No.1 for its main topic (keywords) on over 3-million results returned.

I still believe in Google and agree with "DaveAtIFG message 79" .... I just hope Google knows about the problem so that other webmasters never have this scenario happen to them.