Hi
I have read about hijacking a url in another forum and this was a response. It is apparently a bug with google which allows one URL to hijack another.
Could anyone explain a bit clearer what this person actually means please?
He was obviously being a bit cagey about it.
*“You all want to know how to do it?
Go get yourself just about any php based directory script, make sure the script does click tracking, install the script and submit all the pages you want to hijack into this php based directory (make sure the click tracking (302/301 re-directs are turned on) . *** Just what is a 302 or 301 redirect and how does it work? If you are able to figure out how one of these directories handles their 302 redirects on their click tracking pages (Hint: http responses…) you could accomplish this page hijacking whenever you wanted by simply re-creating what the script is doing.”
The hijacks will soon start appearing on your directory log files. No real harm done, if it stops there, the owner of the pages is still getting the traffic.
But a person with bad intent could wait till Page A?s URL is appearing in the google SERP instead of page B?s URL then simply remove the re-direct and put whatever content that was desired by the hijacker on Page A…*
