OmicronLab Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 (edited) Hello, My site is hosted on TCH. Just now, I searched google for one of my page to see if it is listed there. The original page url is: http://www.omicronlab.com/avro-keyboard.html I searched using this terms: avro keyboard But Google put url of the first result as http://admin.u15194059.onlinehome-server.com/cgi-bin/mysql/dl.pl?dbname=FH&table=System_Utilities&ID=2293 - (see the image below). For curiosity I went to onlinehome-server.com and found that it is a hosting site. The url google is reffering is redirecting to the original page (http://www.omicronlab.com/avro-keyboard.html) Why this is happening? Are onlinehome-server.com and tch same host or partner? Image: Edited March 5, 2007 by TCH-Thomas Made link inactive Quote
OmicronLab Posted March 5, 2007 Author Posted March 5, 2007 P.S. I have never made any submission to onlinehome-server.com. I just cannot figure out why they put a redirect to my page. Any idea? Quote
Head Guru Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 We have 100% nothing to do with this. Just a simple DNS lookup shows me quite a few things. admin.u15194059.onlinehome-server.com - belongs to 1&1 Internet Services It took me a few minutes to track it down, however here it is. Some not so nice guy is playing a google PR trick. Typing in my browser = admin.u15194059.onlinehome-server.com/cgi-bin/mysql/dl.pl?dbname=FH&table=System_Utilities&ID=2293 brings me to your site. HOWEVER typeing in my browser = admin.u15194059.onlinehome-server.com/cgi-bin/mysql/dl.pl?dbname=FH&table=System_Utilities&ID=**** (replace the four stars with any four digit number) takes me to other sites. So plain and simple. Someone is playing Page Rank Games of sort. Rest assured TCH has nothing to do with this. Sorry I cant offer you anymore, but we have no control over external sites. Quote
Head Guru Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 Couple Examples.... http://admin.u15194059.onlinehome-server.c...ies&ID=1895 http://admin.u15194059.onlinehome-server.c...ies&ID=2291 Quote
Head Guru Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 OH and your not the only one being targeted. (not sure if targeted is even the right word) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=a...home-server.com Quote
Head Guru Posted March 5, 2007 Posted March 5, 2007 Ok i take back everything I just posted. I now actually think thats a proxy server of some type. Either way, not much TCH has in the way of controlling this sort of thing. Bill Quote
Deverill Posted March 6, 2007 Posted March 6, 2007 Have you ever hosted your site at the host Head Guru named above? (Don't want to give them any more reputation from our forums) If you used to be hosted there it would make sense that Google still has some old pages in there. If not then it's a true mystery as to why they would be pointing at your site here. Quote
OmicronLab Posted March 7, 2007 Author Posted March 7, 2007 Have you ever hosted your site at the host Head Guru named above? (Don't want to give them any more reputation from our forums) If you used to be hosted there it would make sense that Google still has some old pages in there. If not then it's a true mystery as to why they would be pointing at your site here. Never! TCH is my first host (prior to it I used free hosting), and I hope its the last. Thanks everyone, for your valuable time. Just one more question, is there anyway to report/ask Google about this issue? Somewhere I read that search engines may ban you if it finds duplicate contents over and over, and in this case, it is 100% duplicate! Surely I'll want to tell Google which one is genuine page. Does anybody know where to knock (if there is any, ofcourse)? Quote
OmicronLab Posted March 8, 2007 Author Posted March 8, 2007 Well, I've report abuse to the hosting company and Google. I've also received a auto response from the hosting company. Now let us see what happens... Quote
OmicronLab Posted March 8, 2007 Author Posted March 8, 2007 Well, Although some of you told that it is not possible to solve the issue in my/TCH part, I'm happy to let you know that I solved this problem! It's easy, the page hijacker was just checking "user agent string". When it is Google bot > it was showing my page there (you know, its possible with php or languages like this), When it is a browser> it was just redirecting the visitor to my page. So, the only way to prevent this hijack is to deny the u15194059.onlinehome-server.com to visit my site. I run a reverse DNS lookup, found his total possible IP range, and block them via CPanel. And yes, it is working! Without redirecting, the hijacker's url is now showing a different page: http://admin.u15194059.onlinehome-server.c...ies&ID=2293 I hope after the next crawling my site will come to top again in google result. ------------------------------------------ How I figured it out. Use http://www.wannabrowser.com/, it will let you define your custom user string and let you browse any page. I have used Googlebot's user string there: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) and saw te difference. Alternatively, you can use User Agent Switcher, a firefox add-on: http://chrispederick.com/work/useragentswitcher/ ------------------------------------------- Hope it will help if some other guy faces the same problem. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted March 9, 2007 Posted March 9, 2007 Glad you found a solution and thanks for the info. Quote
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