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Comment on The Google Long Tail Fail Whale by Samuel Lavoie

Samuel Lavoie — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:13:54 +0000

Nice “spam report” and your digging shows how much crap there is.
Not surprisingly, Blekko is doing a way better job than Google on this specific query.

http://blekko.com/ws/yellow+gold+stud+labret+4mm

Google have definitly 1 or 2 things to learn there…

Comment on Hijacking Google Rankings Through Content Scraping and Cloaking in 2011 by Panda1 « happyncalm

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Comment on Hijacking Google Rankings Through Content Scraping and Cloaking in 2011 by oggy

oggy — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:06:55 +0000

Hi Mossi, I see your point, but aside from the scraping content issue which Google has constantly say they addressed (see here), the question is this: Are these the most relevant results? It’s not just about having keywords in a domain name. Otherwise Zappos.com should be outranked for the word “shoes [specific name of product]” by something like shoes-specific-shoe-product-size-7.tk It would not make sense. So domain name containing a keyword could be a signal, but when it is given too much importance Google SERPs start losing relevancy.

Relevancy is Google’s “Main” objective, if they screw this up long enough and searchers consistently get irrelevant results they will go elsewhere. It is no coincidence that Bing is continuously growing these past few months. Google users are increasingly finding irrelevant results in the top ten for long-tail search queries.

Comment on Hijacking Google Rankings Through Content Scraping and Cloaking in 2011 by Mossi

Mossi — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:51:11 +0000

But I don’t understand,

if the domain has the keywords in it, it should RANK higher. Freshtrends does Not have those keywords in their domain name, so how could they expect to rank higher for any of those keywords ??

the other issue is one of “ethics” or rather protecting one’s commercial interests

i do Not believe that google are in business to protect the monetary or commercial interests of millions of private companies

you can’t go and beg google to “take someone’s domain down” because the person is causing you “income loss” or is cheating you money. the problem with such an approach is that every company that sells some widgets out there could come and tell google that THEY ARE THE REAL owners of the brand or the first person on the planet to own such-and-such brand, and NOW google would have to play God or play Judge arbitrating over the commercial/financial interests of these two.

I am Not sure if google would even be able to employ enough people to do this sort of arbitration as it would quickly run into Millions of queries/requests/complaints per day.

What if a spammer comes to google and tells them (showing ALL the proof) that he is the REAL owner of some brand or product ?? should google now go ahead and REMOVE the top rankers from their position (which THEY ATTAINED first) and now INSERT the new spammer’s website as the top ranker ?

i Don’t know guys, maybe i am missing the boat totally on this in some way, but it appears to me that vendors cry foul over crazy expectations. when a vendor fails to protect his brand in a “ranking game” , are they supposed to go and BEG google to remove the TOP ranking guy and **put the vendor** at the top instead ? i mean even if this is against the affiliate program’s T&C, when it comes to google and organic ranking… you CANT buy your position to the top spot hey …. neither can you BEG your way into the TOP spot when you’re out-ranked ) you’ve got to EARN your rankings by working for them in the SEO game, period.

Comment on Hijacking Google Rankings Through Content Scraping and Cloaking in 2011 by chris

chris — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:49:54 +0000

I’ve been in seo for over 10 years, it really does feel like going back to the altavista days, it’s crazy

Comment on Hijacking Google Rankings Through Content Scraping and Cloaking in 2011 by Frank L. Ludwig

Frank L. Ludwig — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:21:07 +0000

Google has lost the plot altogether. Hardly any of their search results are relevant,and most of them are spam sites or fake virus alerts. Original content can be found at the bottom of the results.

After 10 years of using Google, I have switched to Yahoo, and I’m sure millions of others will do so, too.

Comment on Hijacking Google Rankings Through Content Scraping and Cloaking in 2011 by Naoise

Naoise — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:13:18 +0000

Looking at the link profiles of the spammy keyword exact-match domains, well, they don’t have any links. Hmm, maybe Google shouldn’t, after all these years, still be boosting exact match domains for the exact match keyword – at the very least not for an essentially hijacked TLD (Tokelau) which are given away for free from a country that is all of 10 square kms.

Comment on Hijacking Google Rankings Through Content Scraping and Cloaking in 2011 by Amir @ClickFox

Amir @ClickFox — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:05:24 +0000

Google getting too big for their own good? I noticed several similar results in the past for hot trending topics and not only did Google let you click through to the spam/malware site, but they even had the red warning page up. You’d think that would trigger some sort of failsafe, right?

Nice article. Glad I subscribe to your feed. Post more often!

Comment on Hijacking Google Rankings Through Content Scraping and Cloaking in 2011 by Vincent Guérin

Vincent Guérin — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:24:14 +0000

Don’t have any examples to share, but this is really sneaky. I’m really surprised by the answer you’ve got from Google.

I hope they will tackle shortly.

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