302/meta refresh hijackings ..

[Mogga]

Have got some concerns over google and how certain site links are being treated.

Someone's told me that this
http://search.cometsystems.com/searc...des&src_id=312

is causing me problems.


I've contacted them and asked them to remove my link as I have been advised but have heard nothing.

Does anyone else know about this? What else can I do?


Using this
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi...ervercheck.cgi

Server Header Checker

Server Response: http://sl.cometsystems.com/r?u=http%...ons+promotiona
Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Found


Is this the dreaded 302?

[renegade]

I'm also worried about the implications of this 302 mularky but have no idea why links on com*tsystems are "a bad thing".

Any explanations and/or courses of action welcome...

[Keith]

dont know if this will help, perhaps someone more technical can coment.

you could add this to your .htaccess file to block traffic from cometsystems

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "^http://search.cometsystems.com/" BadReferrer
order deny,allow
deny from env=BadReferrer

[purple]

what is 302.

Also findspot.com seem to be getting lots of high ranking pages many in my area have scraped my content

[Mogga]

Could well be.

Doing a randomly picked link off their site and using that checker above...

Server Header Checker

Server Response: http://theirbitremoved /redir.php?re...mtzPTEwJnVwbG5
Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Found

[purple]

thanks for that but what can I do to put this right?

[Coopson]

you can't!

It's a bug with Google....

[km8]

Originally posted by purple what does 302 cause findspot.com seem to get lots of high ranking pages

Don't spoil the ship for want of a ha'p'orth of full stops.
Or did you substitute "cause" for "because"?

I couldn't figure out what your question meant.

I'm not just nitpickin' - it's easier to answer if you know what the question means
Edit: PS. Looks like Mogga worked it out - perhaps it's just me

[Mogga]

I think that this 302 redirect issue could be bigger than spyware...

HTTP 302 redirect which is a response header telling the browser the document has been temporarily moved.

If google is respecting 302 redirect codes from nasty/spammy sites then its ignoring my site and I'm losing money because of this.

[km8]

Originally posted by Mogga I think that this 302 redirect issue could be bigger than spyware... HTTP 302 redirect which is a response header telling the browser the document has been temporarily moved. If google is respecting 302 redirect codes from nasty/spammy sites then its ignoring my site and I'm losing money because of this.

You mean I could put up a page with a 302 redirect to Yahoo and G**gle would think Yahoo's pages had moved to my site so I'd get all Yahoo's traffic from G?

Is that how it works and how can I check if it's happening to me?

PS Tried to PM you but your box was full. I don't think I'm affected but I don't know how to check

[Mogga]

I think you need a higher PR to steal it ...

http://search.cometsystems.com/searc...des&src_id=312

This site lists to lots of other sites ... using a 302 redirect


http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi...ervercheck.cgi


For one of the links this url shows
Server Response: http://sl.cometsystems.com/r?u=http%...s+promotional+
Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:14:28 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.promotionalcode.co.uk/lin...ther-sites.htm
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=50
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1


its a 302 redirect

What is a 302 redirect
HTTP 302 redirect which is a response header telling the browser the document has been temporarily moved.


Which I think means
Search Engines and the 302 problem
This feature has significance when viewed in context with search engines, when confronted with a HTTP 302 response they generally will terminate the indexing of your site. Translated, search engines may be ignorning large or even all parts of your site.

Which means the sites that link to you via a 302 are basically sucking the life out of your site as they're telling google that your site isn't there.

I think this is what it is - someone with more technical knowledge might be able to confirm or deny this.

How to tell if your site is affected?
Well I'd assume if your site is listed on that cometzone one then you're affected.

You'll tell cos you have a lot less google traffic than you used to and I think the googlebot will still be visiting you - but the question is what to do about it.


Without being able to stop all sites linking to you via a 302 I don't know.

I've emailed that site several times and asked them to remove all links to me. I had someone in the UK 302'ing me recently and spoke to him on the phone ans got him to remove the link. He claimed the search engines didn't mind it - ha! Well I mind it even if they don't.

I think google needs to look at how it acts on a 302.

I would appreciate feedback and your thoughts on this issue.