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0 pointsmoultano15y ago0 comments

The results for that query are horrible, but his complaint about losing traffic certainly isn't due to his ranking on 30-word quoted queries. I'm hoping to get an example of a normal query where he's losing out to scrapers so we can debug what's going on.

The headline implies that he's penalized in search due to scrapers, which isn't happening.

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jcampbell115y ago· 2 in thread

> The headline implies that he's penalized in search due to scrapers, which isn't happening.

In this case the phrase "Google penalizes" = "Google denies access to adwords". The word penalize doesn't always refer to site penalties in the Google search index.

moultanoOP15y ago

The reason it's on top of HN is almost certainly because that's the conclusion everyone jumped to. That seems to be how the word "penalize" is consistently used with respect to Google.

jcampbell115y ago

I agree, I am a bit surprised this is on the frontpage. What is ironic though, is than now when I search for the 30 word phrase, two scraper sites appear with the article scraped from seobook.com. ...nicely backdated by 37 seconds.

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