The meta refresh bug and the URL removal tool

how can i resolve the meta refresh redirect hijacking problem

[trimmer80]

I have two domains that have been hit by the meta refresh redirect bug and thus have no pages indexed in the serps. They both have a significant amount of content and a significant amount of sites linking to them.
I am looking for a solution to the problem. I have been told to use google's url removal tool :
[services.google.com...]

but I have the following issues:
1. The sites causing the problem are not mine, so i am not sure google will remove them.
2. Google says the sites need to no long exist to remove them.

I am looking for feedback from anyone that has overcome this problem.

[ciml]

You won't be able to use the removal tool on a URL unless it returns a 4xx error or has robots exclusion due to /robots.txt or a robots META tag.

Do you still have the site:www.example.com Brings Up Other Domains [webmasterworld.com] problem?

I'm seeing it with 302 redirects too. <grumble>

[trimmer80]

Yep, site:www.example.com bring up another domain. The owner wont respond to request to remove it. And thus i have 2 domains with no SE traffic. I have 2 questions in regards to this.

1. does anyone that has had this problem use all absolute links?
I ask this because if you go to site:www.example.com and click on the cache of the hijacker. Then click on an internal link it will bring up googles 404 as the link is relative (it is looking for the internal link at [the-hijackers-domain.com...]
Thus I am wondering if changing all of my links to absolute might get some of the pages listed?

2.If there is no way to solve this problem, am I better off dropping the domain and starting a new one with the same content? This will lose all of my inbound links :(

Any Feedback?

[trimmer80]

Just an idea.
if i put up the robots disallow on the page, then would the page redirecting get dropped and how long would it take to get re-indexed?

[kamran mohammed]

Hey Even i have the same problem...
Till last month i was having redirect on my website to other website but after i removed the redirect...Google is still indexing that old redirected URL.

but i have noticed one thing...if i m checking the cachesnapshot from toolbar i see the old redirected website but if i see thru the site command and the cache of the homepage i see my wesbite which is now doesn't have any redirects with latest cache date.

can any1 please explain me....what must be this problem or is that they have to update the toolbar.

KaMran Mohammed

[chrisk999]

I'm having the same problem with one of my sites, and as hard as I try, I cannot get in contact with the offending webmaster.

How should I proceed? If I cannot remove the page by talking to the webmaster (and the hosting company is notoriously bad at any kind of external communication), is there any other way of getting around this problem?

[zeus]

This is a Google problem, so there is not much you can do, than hope another SE will have there marketshare soon.

There a lot here that has this problem, google cant see the difference between a site that is redirecting/scripts linking/hijacking a site from the original site.

I also have this problem, I only have 1 site left that is hijacking, but Googlebot will still not index, this is just a problem where you have to wait, some have been waiting 6-8 month for Google to fix that problem. Of cause you should contact the once that is linking/redirecting, but mostly you dont get a reply and there will come new once, be cause the (bad guys) have also found out that google has this problem, so with a simple redirecting to a good site, can get you some good PR, because Google will favor you as a new version the original.

Well Im tied of talking about this problem, sorry,

zeus