Cache Bashing Google API Used In SEO War!

This is a nasty way to get your Google ranking up! Copy content from your competitors sites and once you have a higher Google ranking than them Google will discard your competitor’s sites because of the duplicate rule.

This tactic suggests to me at least two major dangers – the first is that your competitors can copy your site, cloak it, and possibly knock your site out with Google’s duplicate content filter. I’m looking into this more, so don’t get all worried. I’m not sure how widespread or dangerous this could be.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Mastodon.

One thought on “Cache Bashing Google API Used In SEO War!

  1. just stumbled in this article and notice a great imprecison! then I saw the posting date and ok, for that year could have been a nice news, luckily the times have changed (even though that site scrapers are still dangerous)

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