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Pages Hijacked showing with Extra Adsense

My pages showing under another URL

         

Marcello

4:20 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Since about 2 weeks my index-page P6 (of widget.com) and most of my most other popular sub-pages P5 have completely disappeared out of the Google-Index and have been replaced by another website (foo.com) showing my pages with and Extra Adsense-Code.
(www.foo.com/keyword/widget-com.html)

Worst of all is that now also many backlinks pointing to my site (widget.com) are now credited to foo.com and I am daily loosing Pagerank and pages.

They are working with "http-equiv=refresh"
emails to Google are not getting any responds.

This is part of their Source-Code:
( I have changed their name by FOO )

<html><head>
<title>Widget's Original Page Title</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://widget.com">
<meta name="robots" content="follow, noindex">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
... some more HTML here ....
<!-- Start Creative for 728 x 90 format from Google -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
<!--
google_ad_client = 'FOO_728x90';
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = '728x90_sln';
google_safe = 'high';
// -->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br />
<noscript>
<img height=1 width=1 border=0 src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imp.gif?client=FOO_728x90&event=noscript"/><br /></noscript>
<!-- End Creative for 728 x 90 format from Google -->
... some more ending HTML here

There is currently alot of this going on, but I dont understand why Google sees the Hijacker as the original page and completely bans our site out of the Index.

loanuniverse

4:52 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Emails is not the correct tool for this problem. Digital Millennium Copyright Act's Infringement Notification is.

[google.com...]

Jenstar

4:59 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



This link tells you what to do when a publisher steals your content:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Marcello

5:24 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thanks for the fast replies.

I will have a look into those links.
But I had already send an email to Adsense reporting this topic.

Still the matter remains why Google is dropping completely my pages in the Serps (very high positions for our topic) and replacing them in the same position with the other site

widget.com
replaced with:
foo.com/some-keyword/widget-com.html

widget.com/topic1.html
replaced with
foo.com/some-keyword/widget-com-topic1.html
... etc

and with dropping I mean ... completely disappearing out of the SERPS ... banned ... gone ... vanished!

a P6 site with more than 4,000 backlinks
(completely white, no funny SEO stuff at all)

All my other pages are still in the SERPS and are daily receiving the visit of Googlebot ... It's only the pages that are Hijacked that are gone

Jenstar

5:27 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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For issues with the Google serps, go to the Google News forum:
[webmasterworld.com...]
They should be able to help you with the hijacked page issues there.

This one is just for AdSense specific issues :)

ownerrim

6:51 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Related to this issue, there is a web site out there that allows you to check and see if copies of your site have turned up elsewhere. i've used it a couple times before and it seems to work, however, the site itself warns you that you assume full responsibility for what happens to your site if you access their service. something to do with google's api.

I've tried to ask this question twice before and each time i've mentioned the name, my post has been yanked.
The site's name is two words---the word "copy", and the second word rhymes with cape.

here's the question: is it safe to use this website's service? Does anyone have input re: this?

nsqlg

6:58 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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this is not a just regular adsense publisher, is a premium.

blairsp

8:58 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The site's name is two words---the word "copy", and the second word rhymes with cape.

I must be incredibly dense today but just can't work this one out. Can we have hint number two please

blairsp

9:28 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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thanks to those who have stickied me. To answer ownerrim. Not sure about it being safe or not, but some of the results it throws up are plainly ridiculous. Some other websites were shown as potential copyright infringers simply because they protect their e-mail addy with javascript (as do I)

zomega42

9:37 pm on Sep 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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In addition to the copyright complaint to Google, you should complain to their web host, or better yet their ISP if you can get it. Do a whois, check the email address. If they have their own DNS server so the web host isn't obvious, lookup who owns their IP block and you might be able to get the web host that way.

iProgram

9:56 am on Sep 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

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deleted.....sorry

Marcello

8:48 am on Sep 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Jenstar and loanuniverse, thanks for the links to DMCA.

Those pages say to send the complaind by FAX, as by regular mail it would take ages from my part of the world.

But there is no FAX No. mentioned on those pages?

Can someone post the Fax No.

Thanks

tombola

1:10 pm on Sep 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Marcello, act NOW and send a notice of copyright infringement to Google via mail (no matter how long it takes before they get the letter).

If someone can give you the appropriate fax number, you can send a fax to Google too.

killroy

1:40 pm on Sep 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I had the same happen to me. Except in my case I had adsense on the site, and the thief simply changed the adsense code... This is the second tiem somebody stole this particular site in it's entirety, but usually it gets screwed up, because they don't have th site search and all the aff links fixed properly... And the usually leave my name in the policy pages and copyright notices...

SN

my2cents

3:35 pm on Sep 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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How is this happening and what can be done to prevent it? How could someone hijack a site? Are you saying that they copied your content and put it up under another domain name?

Please elaborate.

Thanks!

Marcello

6:30 pm on Sep 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



To My2Cents:
Its simply done with a Meta-Refresh Tag.

Hijacker "www.foo.net" has a page named:
"www.foo.net/some-keyword/www-widget-com.html"

This page has No-Content at all but only the Tag:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.widget.com/">

Because the Google-Bot treats this meta-refresh as a 302-redirect (Moved Temporarily), the Google bot and algo index the URL of the redirecting-hijacker-page with the content of your-page to which the meta-tag redirects.

As soon as You change content on your page, the last updated date of your page changes, the hijacking page keeps its date, so that your page becomes the younger page which then gets booted under the "duplicate content" filter ... a simple Google glitch

my2cents

12:11 pm on Sep 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Thanks Marcello, much appreciated!

eddy22

5:07 pm on Sep 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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hi Marcello,


You should immediately email adsense support & seek guidance for solving copyright infringement.

They will certainly guide you & give you the fax number.

This related post by Jenstar will be very helpful to you.

[webmasterworld.com...]

eddy

tombola

7:56 pm on Sep 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Read the page jacking thread [webmasterworld.com] on the Google News Forum (msg #151).

jgold454

12:46 am on Sep 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Could someone sticky me with the name of that "copy" rhymes with "cape" site.. thnx...