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Scrapers exploit the sitemap.xml and make easy money

Posted by Ravi on May 6th, 2007 filed in Internet security, RSS, SEO, Scraper sites, cloaking, keywords, research, search engine spiders, spam, website security

What Gets the scrapers to target your website in the first place?
1. If Your website is a very popular site in your niche and getting lots of traffic from search engines, it means that your website URLs are crawled very highly and this makes it easy for scrapers to steal the content and make [...]

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Keyword phrase based Indexing and retrieval

Posted by Ravi on February 18th, 2007 filed in Google, SEO, Search Engines, cloaking, keywords, research, search technology, spam

Google has some way of isolating certain keyword phrases that they deem typical of spam sites.
But the number of keyword phrases that can cause the penalty depends on other factors like
1. Indexing
2. Weighting
3. Ranking
4. Duplicate content
5. Spam detection and weighting (yes – not all spam is bad?)
6. Back Links/Link Profiles
7. Personalized Search – [...]

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