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to Design a Web Site and Make Money on the Web.
~ ~ ~ December 8, 2004 Volume 4 Number 43 ~ ~ ~

FREE eBook - Success at Work

The world is loaded with advice on how to advance your career. Some of this advice tells you how to get a promotion at work. But every promotion comes with more responsibilities and more stress, and if you move from hourly pay to a salary, not necessarily higher pay. Maybe you just want to be more effective and happier in the job you have.

Some advice tells you to get a better job at a different company. It seems that your first goal upon getting a job should be to quit and get a job at a different company. The job at the next company may pay more, but will it really be a better job? If you keep moving from company to company, you'll lose the benefits of seniority.

This eBook is for people who want to be more effective and happier in the job they have. The irony is that workers who are effective and happy in their job are usually the ones that get offered promotions and better jobs at other companies. But maybe you don't want a promotion or to move to another company. Maybe you just want a better life by being more effective and happier in the job you have.

How Hackers are Stealing Your Google Listing

By Stephen Bucaro

You have a webpage with a high rank in Google that draws a large number of visitors to your Web site. Then one day your Web site traffic drops like it's a ghost town in Death Valley. What happend? There's a good chance a hacker has hijacked your listing in google. Here's how it's done.

Hackers enter a search word in Google related to a product they want to sell. Webpages that have a high rank in Google appear in one of the first several pages in the search results. The hacker then places an exact copy of one of the the webpages on their own Web site.

Google's robot now finds two copies of the same webpage. In the past, people have posted multiple copies of the same webpage to get more links in Google. Google's alogrithm assumes multiple copies of a webpage is an attempt to spam the search engine. Because of this, it bans all but one of the duplicate pages. Unfortunately, Google usually bans the legitimate webpage rather than the hackers illegal copy.

The hacker is not interested in displaying your webpage. He puts a meta refresh tag in the head section of the illegal copy. A meta refresh tag tells the Web browser to load another page after a certain period of time. Below is an example of a meta refresh tag.

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.hackersdomain.com/page.htm">

This tells the Web browser to load the page www.hackersdomain.com/page.htm after a zero second delay (immediately).

Another method of redirect uses Java Script in the head section of the webpage as shown below.

<Script language="JavaScript">
window.location.href="http://www.hackersdomain.com/page.htm";
</Script>

This code in the head section of the webpage is executed before the body of the page is loaded. It tells the Web browser to immediately load the hackers Web page into the browser window.

Now when a Google user enters the search word for which you had a high page rank, the search results link takes them to the hackers illegal duplicate page, which immediately redirects them to the hackers advertising page. All your hard work in creating and promoting your webpage is money in the hackers pocket.

This hijacking of Google listings has grown by leaps and bounds over the last several months. Why has Google not fixed the problem? Because Google's technicians are busy working on applications like gmail, Scholar, and desktop search - applications that will bring more revenue to Google.

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