Pagejacking How does Google View It

Is a redirector from the pagejacker ok with Google

[castar]

Today, in my stats, I found a site pulling in all of my pages and pages of some top authority sites. When I look at the "view source" it shows my page with metas and everything. But at the top of the page the title is just the url which is not what I have in the metas. So it appears that what I'm seeing on the screen (a copy of my page) isn't what Google spiders are seeing. Thing is a few days ago we dropped in G serps down again to 1/3rd of the normal traffic. Could this be why?

If I place a redirect in my htaccess file sending them back to my original page, would Google view this as wrong and will it hurt my site further?

What would you do? I'd display the offending site since many of us are probably in there, but I think it's against TOS here. Can someone explain how Google sees these sites. From my understanding, it is called pagejacking and they didn't actually copy my content, so does G see that as duplicate content? Could a competitor try to knock authority sites out of the G serps this way?

Thanks for taking the time to read and answer :)

[Robert Charlton]

castar - I'm not sure whether what you're describing is a "scraper" site, which has incorporated the pages of many sites and is ranking for your terms... or whether it's in fact an example of a 302 problem, which had become commonly called "pagejacking."

In this case, what you're describing sounds more like a scraper site, but the situation isn't completely clear to me.

I wouldn't do any htaccess redirects just yet, and in fact I'm not quite sure what you have in mind there. The following info would help to get an idea of what's going on, before you do anything ....

- What are you seeing in Google?
- What are you seeing in the Google cache?
- What are you seeing when you click the link in the Google serps?
- And then (which I think you've described), what are you seeing when you view the source of the page you are viewing?
- How do these match up?

[CainIV]

To further back what Robert is saying, consider using a header checker on the page to determine whether the page is linked 302 - temporarily moved - to your page.

Also contact Google immediately regarding this. Most of these types of issues I have had with other website and have reported to Google I have found Google dealt quite swiftly with.

[castar]

Good questions. Google doesn't have these pages and of course no cache. I would have thought that Google had already booted them, which is not the case. They do have a few pages in Google, but not any of the ones in question. The source code that you see on the page is not the same as what the spiders are seeing. Page title is just the url to my site. The original title that I had placed on the page is in the source code but not displayed at the top of the browser. What's in it for these people? How can I see the page the spiders see? I'll see if I can make sense of the header thing. Thanks.

[CainIV]

In your case, the site is using some type of page scraper to house pages and then display them with ads on them.

Hundreds of these kind of sites pop up everyday. A site: search for this site does not show any of your pages cached in Google with their domain, so the issue could be elsewhere in terms of visitor drop.