Spam site copies are beating Google Groups originals

[graeme_p]

I have recently found that several tech related searches showed spam blogs hosting copies mailing lists ranked higher in the SERPS than the mailing lists own archives.

In most cases the mailing lists were hosted by Google, so the appropriate archive to show would have been Google Groups.

There were some cases where legitimate list archiving sites were shown. That is a good thing because some have better interfaces than G Groups so they deserve their ranking. What I am complaining of is pure copying email to blog post with no threading.

[tedster]

This sounds like a clear example of what members in the SERPs Changes threads for June and May [webmasterworld.com] have been seeing. How ironic that it even affects Google's own properties.

[graeme_p]

At least is shows that they are not giving their own sites free passes, even with regard to duplicate content.