Comments on: Penalties, issues and filtering; it’s all just semantics

By: Terry@CharlotteRealEstate

Terry@CharlotteRealEstate — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:55:26 +0000

Best discussion yet on “duplicate content penalites.” Does this mean that SEO’s that advise your RSS to be Do Follow are just asking to be scraped? I was working in Yahoo pipes for a RSS mashup, but willit do any good SEO wise as no follow links? or is that 2 separate issues?
You may not be aware, but there is a big fight going on this very issue in the surreal land of Real Estate listings, the MLS and the Originating Brokers- the Domain A’s. Google has been called a “scraper” by the Minneapolis MLS, and the listing that appeared on the web, above the originating Domain A broker,left that broker complaining and prevailing at the local level. Domain B was requested to make those pages “no index,nofollow” with the threat of losing their MLS access if she did not comply. She did, and its being reviewed this month I think at the national level.
Google needs to do something about this.

By: Yawn Webmaster!

Yawn Webmaster! — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:57:22 +0000

You are talking about an inherent weakness in the Google algo, it’s foundation on links, and the way it assigns trust – it does this automatically via an algo.

I mean Wikipedia is the top of just about every information search on the planet, and this a directory that is created with little authoratative control.

Beacause of this as a pubisher, you can write the best stuff in the world, but if someone steals it and publishes it on stronger website, Google will assign that placement or position.

Over time it will correct itself.

As a webpublisher have a solid TOC and send out nasty letters – but don’t expect any comeback, and automate it as much as possible.

By: Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:18:51 +0000

I’ve also been “Domain A” for quite a while, as Google indexes my content on the sites of scumbag scrap sites first.

I have a daily bout of Google rage when I get my Google alerts for blogs and my newest post is showing for “Domain B” there and not for me.

So it’s an issue, penalty, filtering thing or whatever… do you know of a way to get Google to correct it?

By: David Zemens

David Zemens — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:52:47 +0000

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a duck. Just because Google says it’s not doesn’t mean that something fowl isn’t occurring.

By: Michael D

Michael D — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:44:25 +0000

This is a topic I have not been too crazy about, simply because I’ve been the “Domain A” for a very long time. At nearly every conf. I’ve been to I’ve heard the ramblings and complaints with issues related to scraped content that outranks ones own, and unfortunately, googles seemingly minimal concern regarding the matter.

Content is ripped from the source, from rss feeds, from feedburner, and who knows where else. It’s like having friggin termites in your home, you know it’s bad and then one day you go and really take a look to find all your shit is showing up everywhere else but on your domain.