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Re: Google algorithm change launched

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Post by MelissaLB »

will there be any penalization for sites that use wikipedia content. Specifically a site that would NOT show up in the same search results as a wikipedia page but a commerce site that uses some unaltered wiki content in the descriptors of the products?

I've seen many sites use this method of adding text to an image heavy site and have watched one particular site that uses this method of adding text, drop dramatically out of the search results since October 28th and again around Dec 28th.

Would you advise to discontinue the use of wikipedia content even though the targeted keywords differ from those of the actual wikipedia page?

Re: Google algorithm change launched

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Post by xenophanes »

RealGeek wrote: post #18

Will this change effect sites like filestube.com and freshwap.net? FilesTube ranks for majority of the long tail keywords, even those not related to downloads/torrents/rapidshare. I see filestube's auto-generated search listing pages ranking on Google all the time. Pages like: http://www.filestube.com/m/matt+cutts http://www.filestube.com/g/google+scraper Same goes for freshwap: http://www.freshwap.net/387/dl/Google+…

There's some really annoying torrent sites like this. I mean, sites that pretend they have search results for whatever torrent you're searching for. Those show up on a google a lot and they're useless.

Re: Google algorithm change launched

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Post by MelissaLB »

will there be any penalization for sites that use wikipedia content. Specifically a site that would NOT show up in the same search results as a wikipedia page but a commerce site that uses some unaltered wiki content in the descriptors of the products?

I've seen many sites use this method of adding text to an image heavy site and have watched one particular site that uses this method of adding text, drop dramatically out of the search results since October 28th and again around Dec 28th.

Would you advise to discontinue the use of wikipedia content even though the targeted keywords differ from those of the actual wikipedia page?

Re: Google algorithm change launched

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Post by moultano »

xenophanes wrote: post #62
RealGeek wrote: post #18

Will this change effect sites like filestube.com and freshwap.net? FilesTube ranks for majority of the long tail keywords, even those not related to downloads/torrents/rapidshare. I see filestube's auto-generated search listing pages ranking on Google all the time. Pages like: http://www.filestube.com/m/matt+cutts http://www.filestube.com/g/google+scraper Same goes for freshwap: http://www.freshwap.net/387/dl/Google+…

There's some really annoying torrent sites like this. I mean, sites that pretend they have search results for whatever torrent you're searching for. Those show up on a google a lot and they're useless.

This is another class of problems we're working on. Expect some changes here in the next few months.

Re: Google algorithm change launched

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Post by [deleted] »

xenophanes wrote: post #62
RealGeek wrote: post #18

Will this change effect sites like filestube.com and freshwap.net? FilesTube ranks for majority of the long tail keywords, even those not related to downloads/torrents/rapidshare. I see filestube's auto-generated search listing pages ranking on Google all the time. Pages like: http://www.filestube.com/m/matt+cutts http://www.filestube.com/g/google+scraper Same goes for freshwap: http://www.freshwap.net/387/dl/Google+…

There's some really annoying torrent sites like this. I mean, sites that pretend they have search results for whatever torrent you're searching for. Those show up on a google a lot and they're useless.

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Re: Google algorithm change launched

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Post by Alex3917 »

Not exactly a scraper site, but if you do a search for "learn to hack" the top result is just a list of SEO keywords:

http://www.learn-to-hack.com/

Several of the other results are rather dubious as well. The reason I bring it up is because the Squidoo lens that comes up is something I made, and while certainly not perfect it's still a much better than many of the SEO spam sites and fake eBooks that rank above it. (And plus the ad revenue is going to charity rather than some shady organized crime ring.)

Anyway sorry if it's a faux pas to complain about my own stuff, but I feel like it's a legitimate problem with the way Google works.

Re: Google algorithm change launched

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Post by treeface »

brown9-2 wrote: post #41

Is this change restricted to programming-related queries only? I noticed today that a search for "mubarrek london" returns a page of results where every result on the first page, besides the top one, is spam from www.88searchengines.com, www.30searchengines.com, www.70searchengines.com, etc. I know this might not be related to topic of scraper sites directly, but not sure how else one can easily report these types of…

I can't seem to replicate this:

http://i.imgur.com/kDwPd.png

Are you sure there isn't something else going on?

Re: Google algorithm change launched

#69

Post by phillijw »

seanalltogether wrote: post #52
AndrewHampton wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seeing two SO URLs (5 and 6) before efreedom (8th) when I click that link.

Yes, but 2 things. 1. The SO results shown don't address the query I submitted as well as the efreedom one does. 2. Why doesn't the stackoverflow article that is being duped show in the results?

Maybe it's being downgraded because it's being seen as dupe content?
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