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Originally Posted by wige
Hi everyone.
I recently came across a technique that I believe could be used to trigger duplicate content penalties against almost any web site. This could, at least in theory, be used to affect a web site's rankings, either accidentally or maliciously. I would like to open a discussion on the topic to get an idea of whether such a practice would actually be effective, and if so, to try to come up with ways this technique could be detected, prevented, and recovered from.
My dilemma is that in order to discuss this technique, which would definitely be black hat, I would have to give information that would allow people to utilize the technique fairly easily. I try to be careful when describing attacks and vulnerabilities to avoid giving so much information that my posts become instruction manuals, but in this case I am not sure I would be able to discuss the issue without being so detailed.
So, what should I do? Should I post the information about this technique, which might be abused but which we might come up with a way to prevent or defend against? Or should I err on the side of caution and not post the information?
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You remind me of a friend who has some technical knowledge that said to me in all seriousness that he had invented a mobile phone battery that never has to be recharged but is afraid to tell anybody in case they steal the idea will not even tell a patent agent. I am an electronics design Eng by trade and I could tell him in a couple of minutes if it was viable.about ten years later he has done nothing. ( he was right of course I would have gone into partnership with him developed the idea made loads of money but given him the credit for the idea) I have another elderly friend who is very rich he is a watchmaker that can fix any watch that others cant. I have seen him make parts for antique watches from a piece of metal & handled a clock he repaired for a museum that belong to Napoleon & other objects of art. He has invented a watch like device for charging battery's by movement for use in pacemakers, which I gave him advise on the electrical side for a prototype he built that works but needs a lot of development.
he told a fellow business friend who sold the idea to a large drug company in the USA. problem for his friend that a professor from a London university had seen it & placed an article about it on a website my friend is now in the process of suing his friend with the help of a member of parliament from UK government, not only for the money, but so that people know that he invented the device which to him is more important & as he has the only one in existence for damages if it is ever produced without his agreement. also the man who sold the idea for fraud.
which brings me to the point of all this,If you don't tell anybody about it then there is no proof the idea works as it cant be tried in the field but if you do somebody will steal & use the idea.best is to tell everybody how it works so they know it was you who discovered it, or sell the idea to to an
seo company making lots of money until it is found & blocked by google. over to you.