Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I don't see google stepping back from the out of control dup filter just yet, so how else is can original content be listed on Google?
I will let you know how I get on.
I noticed last week or so sites either aggregating and linking or just plain pinching our content appearing above us in results.
As you point out a solution might be to aggregate your own content on another site.
However, I think I will wait and see what the rest of the month brings before taking those measures. I would not go as far as to scrape our content, partly because I only have a single domain license on a lot of content. But a separate site/s aggregating news (headlines and snippet) from us and maybe some other is legitimate I think, if a little pointless.
I cannot believe Google will let such a situation stand for long since it will just lead to the above and further fairly pointless sites. I will give it a month and then...
Needs must when the devil drives!
I will block all the other well behaved, search engines, as they are all indexing and producing SERPS in a more or less logical manner.
No, this is just a workaround until Google stops going GaGa.
When my site was reincluded in September I moved the pages back to the original site and now they are getting almost the same traffic as before the ban.
Go figure. Well I hope that helps. Also I blocked Google with a meta tag for googlebot on some pages that I thought might be offending it and Yahoo slurp inexplicably obeyed this--killed me with Y.
Google and the others will not immediately obey robots.txt and will index some pages for a while before they get this straightened out.
If you don't use AdSense you could simply deny IP 249.66. the whole block for G or corresponding IP's for M and Y.
