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How to deal with webpage hijacking?

by Jayroo
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Hi there, I recently noticed on google's 1st page results for certain keywords, that these fishy looking pages whose main domain had nothing to do with the actual niche/keyword in question, it had pages showing up in 1st spot for certain keywords, and when you click on the page, it has a 302 redirect to the main spammy website.

Which means the spam site has hijacked the legit site.
For example, just say the legit site was a sunglasses website like sunglasses.com and the hijacker added a page onto it about say cialis (this is not my keyword) so the web page showing up on 1st spot in google for keyword cialis is sunglasses.com/cialis.html

Obviously this is page hijacking, so how to deal with it? as I reported one of them to google via webmaster tools, but they didn't seem to remove the spam site, so I alerted the legit site's webmaster that removed it. 2 days later the spam site then hijacked another legit domain, and are now showing up again in 1st page again using a different unsuspecting domain.

This is ruining my legitimate website that I worked long and hard for to achieve results and first spot. This bad practice is obviously costing me money since this spam site is taking up all the room on 1st and 2nd spot of google by using these redirects.

So what's the best solution for this to stop? keep reporting it to google?
#deal #hijacking #webpage
  • Profile picture of the author Karan Rawat
    First of all change your host site ! and contact to your developer
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by Karan Rawat View Post

      First of all change your host site ! and contact to your developer
      Just because a site is hit with spam doesn't always mean it's the host fault. Most people unintentionally bring on their own site problems, like installing plugins/themes without taking the time to see If those types of things are a problem offline before uploading to their live site.

      Example of a webmaster error (base64 links): How to check your site for base64 links
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    • Profile picture of the author danparks
      Originally Posted by Karan Rawat View Post

      First of all change your host site ! and contact to your developer
      It isn't his site that's getting hacked. A competitor is hacking other peoples' sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jayroo
      Originally Posted by Karan Rawat View Post

      First of all change your host site ! and contact to your developer

      Sorry, I don't understand, why do I have to change my host site for?
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  • Profile picture of the author petjelly
    This is also happening on with my websites as well. I used to rank well but these spammy websites and hijackers are on the top 3 positions now. I have lost a lot of business because of this. I have contacted Google but they take some time to removes these websites from the ranking. I would also like to hear about the solution.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    So competitor is getting their site hacked? How exactly is that ruining your site?

    If the user got redirected to Cialis, you're the first in line to pick the disappointed potential buyer. The hackers try to keep their stuff invisible from Google, but eventually the site is very likely to get dropped from the results. Even that scenario is benefiting you.
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    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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    • Profile picture of the author Jayroo
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      So competitor is getting their site hacked? How exactly is that ruining your site?

      If the user got redirected to Cialis, you're the first in line to pick the disappointed potential buyer. The hackers try to keep their stuff invisible from Google, but eventually the site is very likely to get dropped from the results. Even that scenario is benefiting you.
      If it were benefiting me in anyway do you think I will be here asking what to do?
      I used to own 1st spot for this keyword the legitimate way, and i worked hard to get there, this spam site now owns 1st and 2nd spot it by hijacking other websites like mercedesbenz.com.au /spampage.html so the users click on that and get re-directed to the hijackers page, which is a fully functional site that take payments etc, I thought that part was clear, the are spamming 1st page of google, is what I meant, but they function like a normal site.

      I complained the 1st time to google and to the hijacked site's webmaster, who was extremely thankful I told him, as he had no idea it was happening, so he removed the pages. 2 days later this spam site reappeared under another domain, so I assume this pattern will continue until google does something about it.
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by Jayroo View Post

        I used to own 1st spot for this keyword the legitimate way, and i worked hard to get there, this spam site now owns 1st and 2nd spot it by hijacking other websites like mercedesbenz.com.au
        It seems weird that you could lose the spot so easily for a page that's just spam, but I guess it's technically possible. Do you expect the users to buy from that kind of page? I mean, spamvertized product under a domain name that doesn't have much to do with the actual search...
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        Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
        Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

        What's your excuse?
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        • Profile picture of the author Jayroo
          Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

          It seems weird that you could lose the spot so easily for a page that's just spam, but I guess it's technically possible. Do you expect the users to buy from that kind of page? I mean, spamvertized product under a domain name that doesn't have much to do with the actual search...
          not really, these pages carry very high authority, so all it takes is one page maybe one or two backlinks and they're ranked on 1st page. I counted 2 days from the time the other domain removed them, and then to reappear on 1st page again for the same keywords. It's a LOW comp niche, but with a lot of searches.

          People just read the page intro that sells them to click on the link, if they're on 1st and 2nd spot, it's very high chance customers are clicking on their site making purchases, despite what the domain says. I also noticed my sales dropped quite a bit.

          Anyway I reported them again, and contacted the webmaster of the other unsuspecting website.
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