The 302 HiJack is back - as well as other sites that abuse Google
August 17, 2007
This is a virtual list of sites that ‘hog up’ Google serps and should be banned, or at least treated differently.
1. Any Site that abuses a 302 redirect - As it stands now, the results are weighing in the billions as the 302 Google HiJack is back and back in full force. This means that you can 302 redirect to any website and gain their rankings within days. Solution: Treat 302’s like 301’s
2. Alibaba - weighing in at 33.4 million spammed results, heavy third level name abuse, domain cloaking and wide violations of Google Guidelines. Solution : ban from Google
3. Experts Exchange - weighing in at 1.3 million results. Heavy cloaking and overall abuse of Google’s serps serving differing content (hidden in CSS) between the end user and what Google sees. Solution : ban from Google
4. Wikipedia - weighing in at 12.4 million results. An odd ball in this list. Wikipedia really didn’t do anything wrong but generally speaking it’s a disservice to the end user. Wikipedia has a 92-94% page one ranking rate. Meaning that for 92-94% of the topics, they rank on page 1 in Google. People are not searching for the definition or else they would of went directly to Wikipedia. Solution: Wikipedia should be treated like Google Groups, and get their own tab. and removed from the general index.
5. Whitehouse.Gov - weighing in at 110,000 results. We are kidding, somewhat.. it’s not that we want the whitehouse banned, it’s that they virtually want their site banned. It’s also worth noting that under President George Bush, the exclusion list has grown 3000% Solution: address the robots.txt so that you can list the pages you want included as compared to list the pages you want excluded.
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