Protecting your sites against hijackers

problems, preventions and fixes, anyone?

[rfung]

With sites from folks here generating considerable revenue to the point where people are doing this full time, it's critical to protect your work from hijackers and other malicious activity that may cause you to be dropped out of the serps, banned or worse.

I'd like to start a thread on what can go wrong, how to prevent it, and if a site's been hit already, how to fix it?

the floor is open.

[foxtunes]

Regularly use a duplicate content tool such as copyscape.

Hijackers usually take a few lines of content from your page, then redirect to your site. Sometimes if you spot the duplicate content early enough, and send a request (or if that's ignored a cease and desist email/letter) to the site owner, you can get them to remove the scraped content, and redirected link before the hijacking effect kicks in.

If your site gets to the top of the google serps for a month or two for a popular keyword combo expect to have hundreds of scrapers linking to you. Most are harmless, just watch for those redirected links, or folks cloaking with your content.