crobb305 - 2:53 am on Mar 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

I want to add...that I have been working on getting the 302s removed. Over the past 6 months, I have been able to remove 30 to 40 redirects using the Google url removal tool and by setting the robots meta tag on the destination page to noindex. Now, all of the redirects are gone. The urls still showing in the site: search that I mention above no longer redirect to my site, so I can't have them removed using the removal tool. Unfortuantely, gbot hasn't touched those urls since Nov 2, thus it does not know they no longer redirect to me.

So, even though all redirects are gone, the penalty remains. How long will it stick? My hijacking problems started last May. The last redirect was removed 2 months ago. Among the redirects I removed were about 10 tracker2 urls, all of which were showing in the site: search as recently as December. Regardless of what you do to clean up the problem, the penalty sticks, indefinitely.