Monday, February 13, 2006

Do you think your site has been hijacked?

This week, I had a couple clients report to me that Google was sending their traffic to a porn site! I was baffled and needless to say I ended up spending a fair amount of time on this issue.

I did some research and lo and behold, this is not something new. Apparently, Yahoo has fixed this problem but Google and MSN Search have not. I even found a page that tells about Google's Adsense address being hijacked last year!

You can learn more about the Page Hijack Exploit at http://clsc.net/research/google-302-page-hijack.htm

If you find that the search engines are showing what appears to be your site but the visitor is redirected elsewhere, report this to Google immediately at http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

What do you think about this? Feel free to post your comments!

Glennette

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