Comments on: tracker2.php Pagejacking via HTTP 302 Redirect Google Bug

By: Blair

Blair — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:31:40 +0000

I accidentally ranked high for ‘maori web designers’ in google. I have since bought a new domain name. However an unrelated site now ranks above me. My content is very similar to what it used to be. I use to own richmedia.co.nz. That now redirects to ezyauctions.co.nz. Can I assume they have my content on their page and are redirecting after google spiders it?

By: chris

chris — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:01:40 +0000

Svetoslav .. umm .. not exactly:
10.3.3 302 Found

The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection might be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests. This response is only cacheable if indicated by a Cache-Control or Expires header field.

By: Svetoslav Marinov

Svetoslav Marinov — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:19:55 +0000

Temporary redirect is “307″ not 302, 302 is “Found”

Check the site below
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.8

Svet

By: Software Development India

Software Development India — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:12:53 +0000

Redirection 301: You move Permanently
Redirection 302: You move Temporarily
Meta-Refresh a 0 seconds

All above redirection 302 is creat major problem for Google and MSN. I thing at present google stop catching 302 redirection until it’s find a solution for it.

Jim
TatvaSoft

By: Russ Jones

Russ Jones — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:33:23 +0000

May be a little late to respond, but there is a fairly easy solution.

Say for, example, a competitor is 302ing your main page, so http://www.competitor-site.com is 302ing http://www.mysite.com

Simply do the following:

Add appropriate meta tags for noindex and nocache to your homepage at http://www.mysite.com

Go to google and fill out the emergency page removal script, and enter in your competitor’s url.

When google goes to remove that page, it will pull your site’s content, find the meta tags, and remove the page.

Then, just remove the page and build a handful of links to get it reinstated.

This has worked wonderfully in past.

By: Mason

Mason — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:37:54 +0000

This is the 301 that I use. Could this have any adverse affect as the 302 did to business.com that you mentioned above. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^itravel\.bz$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.itravel.bz/$1 [R=301,L]

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:28:25 +0000

302 redirects are a major problem and google and msn must take immediate steps to deal with this head on. At least google can stop caching 302 redirects at the moment until they come to a solution.

By: Tony Spencer

Tony Spencer — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:55:35 +0000

That doesn’t work either because spider’s actually don’t send a referer header. At least the major ones don’t (googlebot, slurp, msnbot).

By: Culveyhorses

Culveyhorses — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:27:33 +0000

You’re right, my brain was fried yesterday. There must be something. Has someone attempted adding an elaborate config using SetEnvIfNoCase Referer commands? If we can detect referers (misspelled of course), then we should be able to block spiders, as they do carry a referer header.

By: Tony Spencer

Tony Spencer — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:06:20 +0000

Culvey,
Your solution doesn’t work. Your solution only blocks the offender from visiting your site. Google will still index the offender’s site as your own.

Tony