What is pagejacking?

**jemsrav** · 03-13-2012 07:52 AM

**Phoenyx** · 03-13-2012 08:19 AM

webopedia

This is what webopedia has to say about the subject.

The activity of stealing content (typically in the form of source code) from a Web site and copying it into another Web site in order to siphon some of the original site??s traffic to the copied Web pages.

**jawsplanet** · 03-13-2012 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by Phoenyx

This is what webopedia has to say about the subject.

wow,thanks for your information sir

**jemsrav** · 03-14-2012 10:47 AM

Thanks sir for give useful information about pagejacking. Please give me detail about page jacking.

**brett** · 03-14-2012 02:54 PM

How do you know if you have been pagejacked? is there a place that i can use to see if i have been pagejacked?

**Phoenyx** · 03-14-2012 05:24 PM

I will find some more info in the morning and update y'all. You're welcome.

**bencurnow** · 03-14-2012 06:45 PM

To check if you have been PageJacked you can use CopyScape - Copyscape Plagiarism Checker - Duplicate Content Detection Software - just add in your Url and it checks the source code for you

**bundchen** · 03-15-2012 01:07 AM

How is this different from scraping? In scraping you also steal content from other sites.

**Phoenyx** · 03-15-2012 04:36 AM

Another definition of pagejacking.

If you click on a link and find yourself at an unexpected website, you may have been ‘pagejacked’. This happens when someone steals part of a real website and uses it in a fake site. If they use enough of the real site, Internet search engines can be tricked into listing the fake site and people will visit it accidentally. The fake site could contain unwanted or offensive material. As an online merchant trading via a website, you need to know that your site isn’t being stolen in this way. Unfortunately you can’t prevent pagejacking; you can only deal with it after you know it’s a problem.

In jacking, you take control of another webmasters page and redirect it for your own means. Its not just stealing information. From what I have read, it is actually a type of fraud, and considered against the law, which means you could have some nasty consequences if you are involved in it.
I found some information here at marketing terms that explains further what it is, how to detect it, and this article at slowseo gives advice on how to deal with it, should it happen to you.
Here is an online guide to a few other tactics as well as pagejacking at online fraud guide. and lastly, a link to a pdf from oscommerce in NZ that explains a few types and gives advice (with links) on how to protect yourself from any of these attacks.

As I don't frequent these sites, and because of the subject of the thread, think before you click or agree to anything, also if something seems different on a site, don't use it, especially if it asks for information you previously had no need to give them.

**jemsrav** · 03-15-2012 06:53 AM

Thank you very mush sir for informative post. Now I am 100% understand about pagejacking.

**Phoenyx** · 03-15-2012 07:08 AM

You're welcome. From what I understand there is not much you can do to actually stop someone from taking control of your site content etc. but at least there are a few things you could do if it has happened. Have you been pagejacked before?

lol and its not sir. Tis cool though, you can just call me Phoenyx.

**mtrick** · 04-18-2012 08:45 AM

page jacking is the part of Black Hat SEO and way of spamming the index of a search engine. This is the act of stealing content from a website and placing it on your own.

**Ashley Gibbs** · 05-21-2012 10:27 AM

Page jacking is really Black hat Seo and Google can penalized your site .

**digitalreinforcement** · 05-27-2012 05:55 PM

Page jacking is for the blackhatworld and not easy to do and as written above against the law in many country's so you really have to now what you do if you want to do that.

**socialbookmarkings** · 06-14-2012 09:58 AM

Page hijacking or page-jacking is the act of stealing content from a website and placing it on your own. It’s a bad SEO technique and something that can attract a Panda penalty..

**raglady** · 06-15-2012 05:15 AM

It's good to know, knowledge is the power.
First time i heard about webopedia. i'm a noob i know.

**jack78** · 08-21-2012 11:41 AM

Page jacking means a method of posting the original contents from one site to another website to draw off the traffic to the copied pages.

**webmatrix** · 09-19-2012 06:11 AM

Page Jacking is the act of stealing content from a website and posting it on own website.

**thes11** · 09-19-2012 04:57 PM

Pagejacking is digital staling!

**salman** · 09-30-2012 05:15 PM

Pagejacking was a new term for me.... But thanks to our super mod Phoenyx for the definition of the same.

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