Comments on: Defend against SERP Hijacking before You Lose Your Rankings

By: Pritesh Das

Pritesh Das — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 18:54:56 +0000

This is still a serious problem. My site has also been hit by SERP hijack. I wonder what are Google engineers doing even though this blackhat technique came to light back in 2009. This is disturbing.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:16:14 +0000

understood. in that case you can not do anything until Google improves their algorithm 🙁 Just be sure to stay safe.

By: Arthur Gates

Arthur Gates — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:29:41 +0000

Dear Razvan
My site is under SERP hijacking and its never been hacked.
The competitors hack other sites and they inject to them a file with a scraped homepage of my site so they confuse Googlebot and steal my SERP.
My site has never been hacked and its 100% clean.
The problem is that Google caches the hacked sites with the screped-copied pages instead on the original site.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 08:06:59 +0000

so you site keep getting hacked every week? If this is the situation you should change your hosting providers maybe and asses the problems with your site. you should talk with someone specialized here.

By: Arthur Gates

Arthur Gates — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 21:22:57 +0000

Hello Razvan.

My site is under Serp hijacking attack. Almost every two days there is a new hacked parasite site (that contains a scarped page of my site) in my serp place and it redirects to competitors site.
I email the parasite sites and their hosting and most of the times they remove the hack files after a few days but a new site keeps taking my serp. These parasite sites usually have a high PR and when Googlebot compares them with my site it caches them since they have higher PR.
I keep adding new content to my homepage everyday and fetch it and I add the hack backlinks to the Disavow list.
I have send Spam and Scraper reports to Google explaining the problem but there was no reaction.
This is going on for 4 months now and I don’t know what else to do.
Any ideas?
Thank you for your time.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:32:11 +0000

glad to hear Adrian. some of the tips are easily implementable. like site:domain.

By: Adrian Willings

Adrian Willings — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:11:41 +0000

Great read. Sent these tips to some clients in addition to advice we’d already given regarding Google Alerts warnings and setting up Analytics tracking to monitor for problems.

I’m seeing it happen more and more which is disturbing.

By: Razvan Gavrilas

Razvan Gavrilas — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:10:27 +0000

it is also about the software you use. WordPress or other third party software that is out of the control of the actual hosts.

By: Cathy Mayhue

Cathy Mayhue — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:06:06 +0000

I remember, couple of years back, one of my clients faced the same problem because of a wrongly intended web page uploaded to their server. I followed same steps by logging into Google webmaster tools. Though I wish web-hosts should strive to keep their machines clean and these hackers must have a hard time intruding into them.