Banned by Google, Then Reindexed with Hijacked Listing

[lorenbaker]

Hello folks,

My blog search engine, BlogSearchEngine.com, was booted from Google results about two months ago for what seemed to be duplicate content issues. BlogSearchEngine.com was #1 for the terms Blog Search and Blog Search Engine on Google for about 2 years.

We were using a directory system which we found out republished our directory on their own server. Google spidered the directory server's site, indexed it, and kicked us out. Oh no.

We've since redesigned and erased the site of all previous duplicate content.

So, following Matt Cutt's advice, I contacted Google via their Webmaster Help form, told them about the problem, and now, they are reindexing the BlogSearchEngine.com (typing the URL so people don't think I'm referring to another Blog Search Engine like Google's or Technorati).

Now, the site is reindexed (after emailing 3 weeks ago) which is awesome.

The problem is however this listing : http://www.google.com/search?q=www.blogsearchengine.com

Blog Search Engine
September 22nd, 2005. Blog Search Engine is currently in the works of a new
format, which will make its core design more of, well, a blog. ...
resource.oflaherty.dk/modules/mylinks/visit.php?cid=3&lid=15

Now, Google has reindexed the site, but as a hijacked listing.

This Resource.oflaherty.dk page is redirecting to the BSE and has (I think accidentally) hijacked my Google listing.

What I cannot believe is that Google banned my site, then re-included it due to my contacting them, and now lists a hijacked site listing in their index instead of the real URL.

I'm contacting them now with the problem. But has anyone else experienced this before? Any tips?

Thanks, Loren

PS. I did email the URL which is redirecting to my site.

[Chris_D]

Hi Loren,

Don't you just love people who use meta refresh (and 302 HTTP headers) to track exit clicks?

Here's the best advice - from Matt Cutts Blog:

For the first time in ~1 month, I got an email about a “302 hijacking”....<snip>

What do you do if you suspect a “302 hijacking” but don’t have my email address? There’s a convenient way that should get your report to the same engineering list, where it will get the same level of investigation. Go to http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py and click “I’m a webmaster inquiring about my website” then select “Why my site disappeared from the search results or dropped in ranking” and click continue. In the webform that you get to, make sure you put “canonicalpage” in the Subject line, then put the details in the Message body. Someone will route that message to an engineering mailing list where we dissect claims of canonicalization problems (that is, picking the wrong url).
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bacon-polenta/

Good luck....