Google shows the wrong domain for client's homepage

[Conor_OShea_ETUS]

Whenever the homepage of my client's homepage appears in Google results, the search engine is not showing our URL as our domain, but instead a partner domain that is linking to us.  (The correct title and meta description of our homepage is showing.)

I believe this is caused by the partner website (with a much higher pank rank) linking to our homepage from their footer to a URL with it's own domain that 302 redirects to our homepage.

Example:

Link:  http://www.partnerwebsite.com/?ad2203

302 redirects to:  http://www.clientwebsite.com/?moreadtracking

The simple fix would be for the client to ask for removal of the 302 hijacking link - but they are uncomfortable with  this request since they had requested it prior, and their relationship is not the best.

Is there any other way to fix this?

[randfish]

You should be able to manually outrank them simply by building up links, trust signals, social data, etc. to the original domain. That said, I'd probably also post about this in the Webmaster Help forum at Google and maybe submit something through your Webmaster Tools reconsideration request system, too. Google has said these 302 hijacks are very rare nowadways, but that they do want to know about them.

[Conor_OShea_ETUS]

thanks Rand - just today, I noticed Google is finally back to displaying the correct URL.  We didn't do anything in particular to fix this so looks like it took about three weeks for Google to self-correct it.

[randfish]

Fascinating... Thanks for the follow-up; it's good to hear, albeit troubling that it took Google so long.