Is Your Websites Pagerank Getting Hi-Jacked?
August 30, 2010 by Pablo Palatnik
Just came across a great post by John Mueller which talks about getting your pagerank jacked from you! The post is titled, “Hackers stealing your PageRank,” and its something we should be concerned with and at least check…NOW!
I never gave this much thought myself. I guess I should have considering everything else online is pretty much being hacked by these technical douchebags that do anything from spam emails to stealing other peoples identity online…so…there are those that engage in these type of practices for seo reasons.
“A different angle of attack is to redirect only search engine crawlers to a different site. By doing this, they can make it look like the pages of a website moved to a new domain name. In general, when search engines find redirects like that, they will more or less pass the “value” that a page had on to the new URL — that generally also applies to PageRank. So in a sense, they are trying to steal the value that a webmaster has built up over time.”
The quick and easiest way to figure out if something is up with your website is checking out this website: http://web-sniffer.net/
Make sure that everything checks out fine in terms of any sort of re-direction on your root domain, etc.
Here is an example he used to show a hi-jack: 
Learn some of the codes if you have no idea what any of this means:
- 301 Re-direct
- HTTP 302
- HTTP 303
Comments (1)
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