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Dropped from Google

Yeah a few web sites of mine have been dropped from Google, Yahoo, MSN and more thanks to a really stupid mistake of mine and some scum sucking leech of a webmaster. Let today be the official do not leave your .htaccess file chmoded to something writable day. That’s what I did and I paid for it.

Dropped/Replaced from and on Google Search Results

Looks like the guy at thefirefox.net got in there and was directing traffic from the search engine crawlers from me to him. Now both Firefox Facts and the Web Hosting Show are still in Google and the others, but show up in none of the results.

I have reported these guys at thefirefox.net to Google, their web host, their domain name register and to Mozilla but have yet to hear anything about it. Looks like a web site setup to trick people into thinking they are Mozilla so they can get their hands on much AdSense click-through cash when you download it with the Google toolbar.

What action has been taken thus far? Nada. Nothing. Big Goose Egg.. but if I hear from one of them I’ll be sure to post it here and let you all know.

I have done my begging at the holy search engine alter with Google – and now I guess the wait begins to see how long I will be out of the search engine results.

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  • Haven't been able to figure that one out exactly yet - or figure out why he targeted me. Thankfully though I have started to recover and actually if you search for his name in Google I'm now the number one result. Hopefully that'll help warn a few other folks about his antics.
  • So how did they manage to write to your .htaccess? Even if it's o+w, it should still be fairly tough..
  • Thanks Matt, just read the write up. :) Good stuff.
  • Hey Mitch, keep an eye out here:
    http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/maliciousintent/

    Come tomorrow, this jerk (thefirefox.net) is mine.

    Also, remove the actual link to "thefirefox-dot-net" as it is certainly not hurting his ranking any. ;)

    ITP Wens: Portrait Of A SEO Leech - thefirefox-dot-net

    When they came after you, they came after your friends - the buck stops there. You're still part of our family man, so do not think you are in this alone for a single minute.
  • PhilB
    Who's the host? I'll be sure not to send them any business for sure. Sorry to hear this happened to you.
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