Hackers are redirecting search engine crawlers to different sites, according to John Mueller, who provides details on the dirty deed. Doing this gives search engines and Web surfers the impression the
Web site has moved to a new domain name. "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," he writes.
Take note of the site hijacking the PageRanks and the warning signs that Mueller provides in this post. Among them, the search error message "URLs from the Web
site are not indexed anymore." While URLs can fall out of a search engine Index for numerous reasons, Mueller provides insights on how to better determine if your PageRank has been hijacked.
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