japanese - 2:32 pm on Mar 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

rshandy, have you recently used an automated software to submit to search engines and directories? If so you are more than likely to have agreed to the unethical 302 redirect to your site by many sites. Though you may not have. Let us know either way.

Have you done a INURL:WWW.YOURSITE.COM if so, guide us to it to see if 302, 301, IP DELIVERY, CLOAKED HIJACKING, or META REFRESH culprits have attacked your site.

Also do a LINK:WWW.YOURSITE.COM in msnsearch. Look for any site that has its cached page being your content. Do not be surprised to find many other sites displaying your index page content in the offending URL. msnbot is easily manipulated to hijack other websites. In fact a child could do it. msnbot staff simply do not understand IP DELIVER with a 302 directive and the dire consequences it would have on a legitimate site in their search results.

Yahoo did not completely overcome the hijacking issue, google and msn are trying to find a more refined method that works better.

Many hundreds of thousands of websites have unauthorised 302 protocols to search engines pointing to ther websites. These directives are not dangerous, but they become deadly when a linking path exists for goolebot to follow, then "BANG" your website becomes a supplemental page of the website that has caused the redirect to you. Your listing can end up in a completey unpredictable manner depending on whether an aditional meta refresh page was generated that points to your site simultaneously with the redirect.