redirect caused major problems

[Artecona]

We noticed several weeks ago that one of our older domains was no longer cached or being indexed in Google and, looking for the reason why, we discovered that another domain had a meta redirect to our index and seems to have taken prominence over our actual domain. They are even taking our ranking pages over.

We contact the site owner and had the redirect replaced with a static page a week or so ago but we are still not being picked up.

Any ideas on how to clear this up?

[Stefan]

You could give it some fresh backlinks from other decent PR sites/pages that are getting crawled frequently, to make sure G is finding it. Don't link back from the missing site to the originating sites and you shouldn't get a link-farm problem happening... just make it one-way. Then, it's probably only a matter of time.

You could try contacting G.

[Artecona]

thanks
do you think our real domain will replaced the redirect page in the SERPS?

[Stefan]

I would think so. Google is very active these days. If you point some good links at that site, with that meta redirect no longer alive, then it should work its way through, maybe fast.

I hope you jumped all over the thieves that stole the serps that way. Very sleazy. They should be rotated over a slow fire.

[Artecona]

thanks again...crossing my fingers that it works.

It was actually a mistake of a partner site and was not done on purpose, which made it easy to deal with. I would dread to have to deal with an actual thief, could be a major pain.