hardrhymer
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I have a site we created for a client - trophybody.comWhen you do a search for "TROPHYBODY" in a google search all of these different results all w/ different URLS come up with our company name listed in their description....When you click on ANY of these links they all bring up the bodybuilding.com website.... try it out!What the hell is going on ? Pretty wild. The sites are simply iframes that call their page.They have used the keyword to get position right under you - thank your stars that they are BELOW you - not above. Nothing you can do about that - unless you have a trademark registered and are prepared to enforce it's use/misuse legally.What's really crazy is look at all those domain names that end in .cnNo whois information, and most of them if you remove the .cn are valid domains of real sites. like jdedwards, for example.Can they be penalized for this ??And how come my client's company name is in all of the descriptions ?No clue. I've never seen that done before. There's not even a cached copy of the page to look at. Google is obviously being redirected somewhere.Very strange ...I am still trying to figure out how they hijacked the search term. I have seen something similar on a real estate site, where they were appearing for dozens of cities that were not listed on the page. I don't think we figured that one out either.At the bottom of the search results (in the footer) there is a link to let Google know if you are disatisfied with the search results. I let them know that I don't like getting hundreds of results pointing to a single site.Let them figure out how googlebot got hijacked. rtchar wrote:This what we are suffering too and not a small problem like this one, i think there were more then thousand pages that hijacked our content ( or whatever ) but Google is already started to take care of it and banning them ... but we are the one that was paid by loosing all of our ranks since a month now rtchar wrote:I am really having trouble accepting this outrage ....What I have been able to determine so far:There appears to be 6 to 8 sites that are being redirected. Most appear to be totally unrelated, expired sites that have been re-registered. So far I have been able to trace the names back to a hotel, a railroad, and a stock brokerage from old link descriptions that are still active.All page requests to these domains are 302 redirected to an IFRAME that send the requests to the offensive site. Some how the redirect is passing site scrapes from 2-3 diffrent sites to Google, (no other search engines are affected). I tried sending in a bot (agent=Googlebot), but it failed to return the scraped info.GOOGLE SHOULD FIX THIS SCUM ... OTHERWISE WE MIGHT HAVE TO DO THE SAME THING TO SURVIVE bbott1982I finally got a bot to return the original sites ...On the GOOD side --- they are not full scrapes of YOUR pages.They are computer generated garbage with 20-30 links on the page pointing to more garbage pages. All pages have NO ARCHIVE so they are not cached.It looks like they copied 3-4 sites and randomly shuffle incomplete lines from each site (probably to avoid duplication and copyright problems). They can easily populate a site with 5,000 to 10,000 pages this way.On the BAD side --- Google has been aware of this problem for a couple of years. The handling of 302 redirection is broken and the fix is not an easy one.THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A SOLUTION ... GOOD LUCK!!Wow, thanks for the info. How did you find this out - from Google ?I guess the phrase "Sh*t out of luck" applies here.... Lot of interest on some of the other forums where I lurk around.Search for "skyscraper sites" There seems to be two or three variations on the same theme. Yours is not the worst case. Some sites are entirely duplicated and then dropped by Google for being the "copy".rtchar wrote: