| More widespread than people know is Google | | | | went to this proxy hacked page and not to Brad |
| Proxy Hacking. This is a technique to have | | | | Fallon's home page which got de-listed by Google |
| de-listed any web page on the internet with | | | | because it was deemed a duplicate page. |
| serious consequences for traffic and revenue. | | | | This could happen to millions of web pages out |
| If a web site owner finds their traffic to certain | | | | there on the internet. Google have known about |
| pages is drastically reduced from normal, they | | | | this hack for over a year and still the problem |
| should visit Google Webmaster Central to check | | | | persists as I found out this week. One of my |
| how their web pages are being indexed. | | | | pages got proxy hacked and not only was it a |
| Brad Fallon, the 'My Wedding Favors' web site | | | | duplicate but the contents on the page had |
| owner had a serious problem about a year ago. | | | | changed. This page is still not listed in Google. |
| No traffic came to his home page and he called in | | | | To document this I have done screen captures |
| an expert to find out why. | | | | and compiled a pdf ebook with a lot more detail |
| The expert found that the home page was not | | | | to warn other web site owners about this. The |
| any longer indexed in Google, hence no traffic | | | | link is at the bottom of my home page for free |
| from the search engine. What he found was that | | | | download. |
| there was a duplicate page on a server | | | | With the amount of highly qualified technicians and |
| connected through from a proxy server | | | | engineers Google employ, it seems they are no |
| somewhere on the internet and Googlebot had | | | | closer to closing this loophole. |
| found a link to this page and cached it. All traffic | | | | |