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 More options Jul 11 2007, 9:24 am
From: Sebastian
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:24:02 -0000
Local: Wed, Jul 11 2007 9:24 am
Subject: Re: Two weeks in Google Jail and No Chance of Parole it would seem!!
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I looked at this site yesterday, checked a few potential issues WRT
crawlability and such, found a lot of content shared with the rest of
the Web, probably inserted by cheap copywriters, hated the prominent
AdSense spots forcing me to scroll down, thought just a somewhat
exotic scraper site, got distracted in IM and moved on. Actually, it
perfectly fits the profile of a MFA-scraper site, although it's guilty
for just "manual scraping" and the professional scraper would never
risk to lose focus that way.

The problem is a site wide issue, and I doubt it is repairable with
reasonable efforts. I'd develop a somewhat intelligent watering can
testing referrer, user location, broker etcetera to find a somewhat
related page and feed it with low cost traffic while I start over
creating a content rich and better focused new site on another domain.

I know it's hard to give up a site after 10 years, but a clear cut
might be the best medicine.

Sebastian

On Jul 11, 1:56 pm, Burt wrote:

> Yes, it looks like MFA, and it smells like MFA, and it is possibly a
> lot of rewritten content found somewhere else.

> Adam says:

> "The reductions in rankings you've experienced are not going to be
> reversed by simple technical or structural changes"

> But with all respect Adam, we are not talking reduction of rankings
> here, which would be appropriate may be.

> We are talking about a ban.

> If lack of originality causes a ban, I have some better
> suggestions  :) proxies?

> I haven't looked at the back link structure, I only saw the
> translation scraping, and "funny" redirects from google translated
> pages after the scrape. I would ban him for that.

> On Jul 11, 7:10 pm, JLH wrote:

> > I'm not sure what to think on this one.  Sure it's a MFA site, but


 
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