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Also, if there happened to be a redirect to your home page, along with many other links, then you wouldn't want to instruct the robot to de-list that page,
I did this to one ripper:
it is two steps, you need their IP, htaccess and php:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^111\.111\.111\.111$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/redirect\.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) /redirect.php [R]
That will send requests from their IP to your redirect.php file that contains:
<?php
header("Location: [where*you*send*them.com...]
exit;
?>
That will send the request coming from their IP to lala land so when doofusbot requests h*tp://www.example.com/gotosite.asp?ccxxyyourstuff.com it gets www.where*you*send*them.com/whatever.html, I would recco a few destinations, but that is up to you (bad neihborhoods come to mind).
It takes a few weeks for the interlopers cache of your stuff to disappear.
--Mark
Does anybody know how long it takes to recover from such a hit?
Has anyone been able to recover any of their rankings?
The following line appears in my error log:
Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/
Olga
Does anyone who has had this happen to them know what happens when you take the page that is 302 redirected to and do a 301 redirect to another page? Does this have any effect on fixing the problem after you've been hijacked?
RewriteRule ^example\.html$ h**p://www.example.net/example.html [R=301,L]what bout doing this to each and every page?
edit in - this way your server will never return a 200 always a 301 you can set up a .htaccess in each directory for the files in that directory.
there are e-books 'how to make $'s on the internet right away' 'how to become rich instantly' 'the secret to making money on the internet' these are all about how to build a scraper site and hijack google with 302's.
There is SEO sofware "instant results" it is automated 302 hijacking software. People are buying it up. We can't wait for Google or MSN to fix it, we need a bulletproof solution right now.
Any guru's out there? How would googlebot respond to no 200's just 301's every page every time?
cmon guys we need a solution NOW!
If you need a solution (I certainly don't) then try doing some experimentation on your own site. I can't do anything because I don't have the problem.
How would googlebot respond to no 200's just 301's every page every time?
Uh, you have to eventually give it a 200. Setting up an infinite loop of 301s ain't going to help your ranking, traffic or conversions.
Take one of your pages that is having problems with this. Change the name of the file, and set up a RedirectPermanent and tell us what happens.
Can't we have the TOS rule lifted just this once and compile a list of all the known hijackers. Surely this is for the greater good.
They would be sued by every one of them (which is the reason for the TOS) and besides it would use up all of WebmasterWorld's bandwidth just for that one thread.
cmon guys we need a solution NOW!
I know this might sound off the wall but...
What would it take for Google to simply set up a system where a special 'spider' verifies whether or not pages (which are suspected as hijackers and have been submitted thru a form by the hijackee) are indeed using a 302 or whatever clever script they've got to steel the content from another site?
Once the hijacker is detected the domain could be put on a black list or forever banned preferably.
The form might include both the hijacker as well as the hijackee so as to facilitate verification.
