Page hijacked YET Google sitemaps cached me yesterday

[AlchemyV]

Yeah, I was ranking number 1, and now my site is nowhere to be seen because some independent search engine has cached my page, has allowed Google to see it, and as a result has dropped my site and decided that the site is the originator of my content.

Now get this, Google sitemaps has crawled my site a couple of days ago.

I guessing, hoping even, that google will realise somehow and reinstate our page back at number 1.

Does anybody have any experience of this?

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[tedster]

Have you read this thread? It sounds a lot like your problem.

Proxy Server URLs Can Hijack Your Google Ranking - how to defend? [webmasterworld.com]

And no, just waiting is not usually effective. Google spiders, indexes and caches many pages that it doesn't rank well. The thread I linked to is available on our Hot Topics area [webmasterworld.com], which is always pinned to the top of the Google Search forum's index page.