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Stopping (some) 302 redirects with .htaccess

Will this work?

         

larryhatch

11:00 am on Apr 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Two sites in particular are victimizing my site, both owned by the same guy.

His URLs look like
www.badguy1.com/websites/site876.htm -and-
www.sameguy.com/websites/site876.htm

I looked at the HEAD of these and similar pages, all are 302 redirects for sure.
Almost nobody else screws me over like this, numerous pages.

Suppose add some code to my .htaccess file to the effect that visits
from both badguy1.com -and- sameguy.com are totally disallowed?

I would lose a little traffic, yes.
HOWEVER, what happens when Google spiders badguy.com?

IF they spider the urls above, they can't get in to see my content.
Would this force Google to (eventually) stop crediting my hard work
to badguy, and hopefully rank my pages back above his?

I hope this is a good work-around while we all wait for
Google to finish their work on 302s matter in general.

This is a new thread to avoid derailing an extremely important one in progress.

- Larry