The Infamous 302 Exploit

[gadvisor]

The more I have read and heard about the 302 exploit, the more curious I have become. Since my website,googleadvisor.org (Google Advisor) is still relatively new (2 months old), I have to admit that I am a little worried that someone can take advantage of my lack of pagerank and do a 302 on the site. I was just wondering if anyone has been the vicitim of this exploit, and if so, how it affected your ranking and traffic. I have heard that entire websites can be deleted from the Google index, and I am sure it is true. I'd just like to accumulate as much information as possible about. Also, does anyone know any means by which a website may be protected? Thanks :confused:

[singwolf]

Hi

This happened to us by accident - we had 3 URL, 2 of which were poiting to the main one. The main one left the index, with the other 2 being featured as just links and crap PageRank. I finally had these 2 removed but the main one is still not back in the index 5.5 months later...

The site was wwwdotmaptraxdotcomdotau

Ant

[Marcia]

Some people have reported doing the 302 hijack exploit back, and leaving it up just long enough to submit a request for removal of the other page. Sounds risky if someone isn't real precise about it.

I've also seen a hijack by a back-end script using meta-refresh.