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Google AdSense Hijacked In Google Search Results

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The act of page hijacking with concerns to the search engine world can produce long ranging results, especially for the web site or page targeted by the attack. Page hijacking is such a big deal because it allows unscrupulous site owners (the hijacker), through use of a 302 redirect, to achieve search engine rankings from the hard work of another site or page (the hijack victim). Essentially, by employing the redirect and targeting another person's site, you can receive the search engine benefits intended for their work. For a comprehensive explanation concerning 302 redirect hijacks, please read JenSense's excellent write-up, this very thing is being done to Google (!!!) and their Google AdSense homepage. Not only is www.all-in-one-business.com/adsense/ receiving the top position in the Google search results, the hijacker page is also receiving a PageRank of 9. However, this observation must be done quickly because of the redirect being used. This means not only does the redirect page receive high PR scores, but the link:www.all-in-one-business.com/adsense/), Google indicates the hijack page has around 3040 links pointing to it. However, once you inspect these pages providing the backlinks, you discover these pages are actually pointing the Google AdSense homepage. Meaning that when you hijack a page, not only do you gain the target site's search engine result, the act also credits the hijacker site with backlinks intended for the victim. What JenSense's investigation proves is just how effective 302 hijacks can be. Only by using this underhanded method can an affiliate site like all-in-one-business.com be considered more relevant than the Google AdSense start page. Update: Instead of using an independent 302 redirect to accomplish the hijack, all-in-one is using a using a meta redirect command, which is placed in the header portion of a page's html like so: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=https://www.google.com/adsense/"> According to Murdok. Visit Murdok for the

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