Yes, I have searched unique content in quotes many times and not always the same scrapers sites come up.
I've just checked now for example, and the first two blocks of text brought up single site results... two different scrapers.
- The third block of text brought up nothing at all.
The fourth block of text I searched was "Mike Pedersen - Power Golf Swing Trainer and Golf Fitness Expert"... which brought up four results... the first of which was in fact www.performbettergolf.com with a January cache.
First off, can anyone explain why Google didn't bring up the home page for the first three blocks of text searched, but did for the fourth... obviously
the page is in their index, so it should have come up for all four searches, should it not?
Second, what the bloody heck is up with Google prefering to serve searchers these God aweful scraper sites over real sites. Scraper crap is offensive and for the most part an insult to the searcher. These sites should be so far down the list as to make them useless for organic search, which might help to make them less attractive to marketers.
Third, how are these abusive scraper sites serving "our content" to the search engines, cause it sure aint on the page i see when i go there, nor can i find it when i search the source code?
Is it some sort of cloaking or programming that is doing it... and if so, how come Google doesn't whack them silly for breaking their webmaster guidelines?
I did a number of searches as well, for unique content in quotes from some of the product pages that have been dropped from the index, and I get the occassional affiliate site that has taken bits and pieces of the "pitch" and posted to their own pages. But what i see is only a line here and there, mixed in with whatever else they are selling on their page, so I don't see these instances as a potential for "dupe content penalty" or such.
Lastly, the "allinurl:" must be wonky like the "site:" search... cause when you use "allinurl:www.performbettergolf.com" you get 5 results, the first of which is the "about listing" in question. If you search "allinurl:performbettergolf.com" you get 7 results, the first of which is the home page of the site that can't be searched.
Anyone else care to comment?
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