Page Hijack: The 302 Exploit, Redirects and Google

302 Exploit: How somebody else's page can appear instead of your page in the search engines.

By Claus Schmidt.


Abstract:
An explanation of the page hijack exploit using 302 server redirects. This exploit allows any webmaster to have his own "virtual pages" rank for terms that pages belonging to another webmaster used to rank for. Successfully employed, this technique will allow the offending webmaster ("the hijacker") to displace the pages of the "target" in the Search Engine Results Pages ("SERPS"), and hence (a) cause search engine traffic to the target website to vanish, and/or (b) further redirect traffic to any other page of choice. more »