I know and love the bulk URL status checker built into my scraper suite. Some of these queries work for some sites but not others. We're talking about pages that even site crawlers aren't finding, presumably because they don't have any links from...
On-Page SEO Tools: Screaming Frog for onpage links, Scraper for Chrome, HTTPfox (header response codes, 301s etc), Page Speed Plugin While site owners may not see measurable impact in low digit numbers, sites with higher ratios trimming down should...
Fast forward eight months and Google has made two major changes to its algorithm -- first to target spammy/scraper sites, followed by the larger Panda update that targeted "low quality" sites. But if that blog doesn't have good authority in terms...
Google wants you to report scraper websites – those sites that exist for no other reason than to monetize copied content, usually with AdSense – in an effort to test and improve its algorithms. Before rolling out the Panda update, Google launched a...
Also, take a pass at your audience keywords with this suggestion scraper tool. If you find guest posters with footprints across hundreds of sites then set those aside for high-volume, low value placement opportunities.
Supposedly, one thing Google was going to address with Panda 2.2 is the issue of scraper sites – websites that republish other people's content on their own site, usually making money from Google AdSense in the process – outranking content...
By now you realize Google's Panda update took a lot of sites out of the results. Many of those sites scraped content from other sites (or were at least accused of scraping). Some of those sites (the wrongfully accused) have been pleading their case...
It’s odd to see the anomalies popping up in search results – spammy looking sites ranking, scraper sites ranking. Not to mention sites like WonderHowTo.com seeing scrapers and syndication partners outrank them for their own content.
In January, Google assured search engine marketers that it would take action against search engine spam -- scraper sites, sites with little original content, and sites that gamed its algorithm into achieving top listings for what was obviously low...
After all, I wasn't a scraper site, I didn't duplicate content, I should have had nothing to worry about, right? The linking sites were often a part of content syndication networks or sites dripping in ads.
When the Panda Update was announced, Google said this algorithm was designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites (not eliminate them, as there are plenty of scraper sites still populating the SERPs).
This is a time saver for users looking for a specific type of a site or trying to avoid the scraper sites, dynamic pages, or the just plain ugly site. Google has added Instant Previews to specific mobile devices.
Google launched an algorithm tweak in January to combat spam and scraper sites, though that affected a much smaller number of sites. This may have been a response to the scraper update along with bigger content farm sites.
Of course, you won't be able to enforce this option with any scraper sites that take your content without permission. Last year I worked with two sites that had the same post on both sites. Without that link from Site A to the copy on Site B, the...
Building Your Own Scraper for Link Analysis - Distilled Five ways to get links from fan sites - SEOmoz Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to Feb.as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and...
Google's Matt Cutts today announced the launch of a new algorithm that is intended to better detect and reduce spam in Google's search results and lower the rankings of scraper sites and sites with little original content.
Google's Matt Cutts today announced the launch of a new algorithm that is intended to better detect and reduce spam in Google's search results and lower the rankings of scraper sites and sites with little original content.
With a little additional digging through the source code, we were able to determine that there was malware installed on the scraper site so that any visitor to the Web site would be affected and would now get our client's Web site -- on a...
In today's organic SEO column, "Duplicate Content -- A True Story," Mark Jackson outlines a few simple steps before and after you discover the offending scraper sites. Dealing with sites that steal your content is not fun.
Unfortunately, Google's results for extremely competitive travel categories always seem to have similar characteristics: mega-sites with little opportunity for partnership, scraper/spam sites or outdated pages.
