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To be fair, they are quite nice when the official website is down or blocked...
Over the past year, I've noticed that quite a few repos that I used to track have disappeared. I keep a local bookmarks list now because if a "starred" project is removed or DMCA'd, Github does not tell you about it and they remove any mention of the repo from the "starred" list.
I really don't like these websites and I smash that back button as soon as I realize I've landed on one. That said I'm amazed they are still showing up at the top of google search. My understanding was that that kind of behavior (which I think at least some other people do too) combined with the fact that they are just copying another much higher page ranked website would mean that they are highly unlikely to rank ab…
I am not sure how GOOG weighs what happens after you click on a result, it would be clever of them to notice how quickly you click on another result for the same search and slightly downgrade the first link (though, what happens if you open the first three links into new tabs before you actually visit them, say). My assumption was that they just counted clicks as an upvote, so if these scammers can make it into the f…
They did fix this at one point in time by figuring out which site posted the content first and penalizing the copycats, but it appears the fix is once again broken.
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I am not sure how GOOG weighs what happens after you click on a result, it would be clever of them to notice how quickly you click on another result for the same search and slightly downgrade the first link (though, what happens if you open the first three links into new tabs before you actually visit them, say). My assumption was that they just counted clicks as an upvote, so if these scammers can make it into the f…
This is not even the first or second time Google has rolled out changes that allowed SEO spam sites copying Stackoverflow or Wikipedia to rank higher than the original. They did fix this at one point in time by figuring out which site posted the content first and penalizing the copycats, but it appears the fix is once again broken.
I just don’t know how they are managing to get indexed before the big name established sites. Perhaps they are succeeding on some small percentage and that is what we are seeing?
Perhaps they have an additional trick to make it look like they posted the content first, perhaps internal links or something.
I really don't like these websites and I smash that back button as soon as I realize I've landed on one. That said I'm amazed they are still showing up at the top of google search. My understanding was that that kind of behavior (which I think at least some other people do too) combined with the fact that they are just copying another much higher page ranked website would mean that they are highly unlikely to rank ab…
I am not sure how GOOG weighs what happens after you click on a result, it would be clever of them to notice how quickly you click on another result for the same search and slightly downgrade the first link (though, what happens if you open the first three links into new tabs before you actually visit them, say). My assumption was that they just counted clicks as an upvote, so if these scammers can make it into the f…
I really don't like these websites and I smash that back button as soon as I realize I've landed on one. That said I'm amazed they are still showing up at the top of google search. My understanding was that that kind of behavior (which I think at least some other people do too) combined with the fact that they are just copying another much higher page ranked website would mean that they are highly unlikely to rank ab…
I am not sure how GOOG weighs what happens after you click on a result, it would be clever of them to notice how quickly you click on another result for the same search and slightly downgrade the first link (though, what happens if you open the first three links into new tabs before you actually visit them, say). My assumption was that they just counted clicks as an upvote, so if these scammers can make it into the f…
There's even a cottage industry around gaming these signals. See SerpClix and the like.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not sure how GOOG weighs what happens after you click on a result, it would be clever of them to notice how quickly you click on another result for the same search and slightly downgrade the first link (though, what happens if you open the first three links into new tabs before you actually visit them, say). My assumption was that they just counted clicks as an upvote, so if these scammers can make it into the f…
For a long time now, Google has weighted behavioral signals similar to what you describe. "Bounce Rate" is the percentage of users who quickly leave your site after clicking. "Dwell Time" is the amount of time a user spends on a page. There's even a cottage industry around gaming these signals. See SerpClix and the like.
To be fair, they are quite nice when the official website is down or blocked...