Goolge Finally Cleared Out Hijackers?

[papamaku]

One of our sites had been massively hijacked by lots of domains (mostly by our own affiliates :( )

These used to come up on site:www.oursite.com queries, but now it seems that they've gone, and only oursite.com shows up :).

Does this mean that Google has finally stepped up to the plate and put a filter in to stop all the hijacking scum?

[diamondgrl]

Congrats! This a good sign. More likely than not, though, Google just caught a few of the bad guys and not all of them.

[Vec_One]

papamaku,

Try searching "in quotes" for a unique fragment of text from you homepage.

[zeus]

I have not seeen any changes and to be hornest I dont think Google have done anything yet.

[papamaku]

There's still loads of sites that have nicked the content and they're still being found.

The ones that got the chop were those that were doing an instant redirect (but with 200 header) from their url to ours with their affiliate id in the query string, so Google was indexing our content as theirs (thus why they were coming up for a www.oursite.com query).

[crobb305]

I have numerous mirrors and redirect urls still showing. Even more peculiar, a site:mysite.com search reveals some of these mirrors listed as if they are actually part of my site!

C

[eddy22]

I've had help reporting such sites to google and yahoo
( filling up the spam report form).