On the site, Google explains that to combat the "millions of useless spam pages" created every day, it identifies and fights spammy techniques (e.g.keyword stuffing, paid links, invisible text) through a mix of algorithmic (computer) and manual...
If you have a feeder site or blog you use for other outreach purposes, add that to your summary and experience. Going to the same places, using the same footprints and scraping the same advanced search parameters will only result in obtaining the...
In the news segment of the show, Craver and Miller discussed Facebook's recent site scraping issue. We had one site, maybe a microsite or two. I also built my own sites in completely different verticals; we weren't working with WordPress, so I just...
In this case, it appears someone has attempted to scrape information from our site. The problem, as we spoke with Facebook about yesterday and again today, is that we also obtained the file in question and it seems highly unlikely the leak was the...
This article is a simple breakdown of how to go about using an SEO site crawler to quickly identify duplicate content. Once the parameters have been specified, type in the address of the site and click start.
Unknown scraping efforts are, in my opinion, more dangerous than incidental on-site content duplication via dynamic parameter usage, session ID usage, on-site copy spinning (e.g.copy variations on location pages, etc.
In fact going throw some controversy in the mix, if any other site did this, Google would be called “blackhatting” “scraping” or many terms usually reserved for “SPAM”, but this is Google and whatever you think of it, there is no getting away from...
Just because a site's scraping content or spamming doesn't necessarily mean that they're part of a link network. In the real world, you might be working with a site which is weighted far over to the left of the graph.
Utilize a site scraping tool that will run through your site and create an exportable list of all site URLs. One of the many important on-page SEO elements is having a keyword-relevant URL for a given site page.
Majestic Site Explorer (paid) Find Links Pages for Dead Site Discovery: Start with a .gov site in your conceptual neighborhood (fda.gov for a health site) and then download linkers just to its home page.
With this tactic, not only can you leverage the data to author content on your own site, but now you have a list of potential prospects to market your problem-solving content to. To get really personalized, you can pitch prospects on your list with...
Automated queries to Google: Tools on your site, probably a bad idea. If you're using on-site spam tactics, I am sure you know it. We do know there is certainly elements of on-site with both the Penguin and Panda updates.so it's worth looking at.
There’s ALMOST nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. There’s nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index.
There is nothing worse for a webmaster/site owner than to wake up one day and find Google Armageddon has taken out all of their site's rankings and traffic. We have seen instances where a site was penalized but still ranked for its brand.
With my contact finder tool I see anywhere from 25-80 percent availability of contact info for sites depending on the vertical and how contactable the site owners want to be. Though I still scrape SERPs for link prospects, I've learned to...
Their success is measured in users and their time on the site. Cloaking, paid links, scraping, keyword stuffing; Google fought these and largely saw their best interests served. As the never-ending battle of search engines vs.marketers marches on...
Sure, you can use them to get some idea of where to start, but the site and topics of your content are all yours (unless you are scraping or duplicating others' content) and you need your own frame of reference to make the right decisions.
While one commenter brings up hidden text and cloaking (two major black hat tactics), other approaches such as scraping, fake news content, hidden links, presenting another site's branding as if it were your own, and spamming map results were...
Among other changes, this appears to be one of the ways Google is using to identify original content from the copies that are continuing to outrank the site from which they scraped. Many of those sites scraped content from other sites (or were at...
After making their site better for users and Google, OneWayFurniture.com still isn't reporting a full recovery, but it is now seeing higher organic rankings and search referrals of late - and we've documented the value of ranking on Page 1 Google.
