Hijacking

What is it and how to prevent?

[webjourneyman]

What exactly does the term hijacking meen? Is it plagerising, someone copying the whole site and setting it up as their own or is it a redirect where my site would be loded into anotherones thus both plagerising and bandwith theft?

I´m starting to build a site from scratch, what can I do to best prevent this?

[webjourneyman]

Nobody knows?

Does using absolute urls help? I.e. instead of /folder/page.html use [nameofwebsite.com...]

[frenzy77]

Hey webjourneyman:)

I've been told that a good way to try to prevent
"302 hijacking" is to use absolute links. It might be a good idea to use them for internal pages aswell.

If you would rather use relative
URLS be certain that you have:

<base href="http://www.xyz.com/">
where its *your* domain, in the header of of each document.

Also if you want more information on website
hijacking, run a search in a search engine on:

site:webmasterworld.com 302 hijack

Well i hope this helps:)

Good Luck:)

frenzy77

[webjourneyman]

Thanks, I did a search for hijacking as you suggest but got confused as to what exactly the term means.

Perhaps I´m confusing hijacking with another term/thing where a whole website gets copyed from root and posted under another url, and with other adverts of course.

But both are serious, I´ll read into 301 hijacking some more. Thanks.

[vacorama]

i think the last google update was specifically targetted to kill the effect of 302 hijacking. i had a lot of sites copying my content and redirecting to my pages, and once the update came my traffic almost doubled...