The days of having your domain hijacked through a proxy in Google are over. This was a huge problem for years and looks like it has been rectified. All of the domains I have that had the 302 hijack issue are all responding correctly.

Google and Microsoft have recently released a new supported tag to allow their spiders to know which “real” version of the page you want indexed, if you have dynamic content.

The syntax is pretty simple: An ugly url such as http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265 can specify in the HEAD part of the document the following:

That tells search engines that the preferred location of this url (the “canonical” location, in search engine speak) is http://example.com/page.html instead of http://www.example.com/page.html?sid=asdf314159265.

This is great news and it should also take care of Proxy Hijacking. Learn More about the Canonical Tag.

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