302 Google Jacking

302 Google Jacking -  A Black Hat SEO technique for falsely showing a high Google PageRank^TM  by redirecting from a lower ranking page to a higher ranking one using a meta-refresh or server-side (302) command. The point is that since the 302 redirect is supposed to be temporary and not permanent, a search engine (Google) seeing a 302 redirect will give the redirecting page the higher PageRank of the target. So you could set up a new domain called Joeblow.com that redirects to yahoo.com, and Joeblow.com would get the pagerank of yahoo.com instantly, without all the boring drudgework of building a Web site.

Sorry Black Hat SEO pirates, the search engines caught on, so 302 redirects don't get you high pagerank any more supposedly. 

Ami Isseroff

October 1, 2008

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