Google Proxy Hacking and Duplicate Content

Google Proxy Hacking and Duplicate Content

Thanks to Article Underground member Aitch for bringing this great article by Dan Thies on Google Proxy Hacking to my attention. It explains what it is and how by getting proxy sites indexed with web content from our web sites, it gets them indexed by Google and therefor creates exact duplicate content. Google sees this and penalties and all kinds of problems may occur. mAINLY, THE PROXY OFTEN BUMPS YOU FROM YOUR TOP RANKINGS! oUCH!

I’ve had this happen with my sites in the past. In some cases when notified of the offending malicious proxy, Google removed them from their index. But this was only with intentional malicious indexing of hijacked content. Google still lets some of the proxy sites get a free pass and allows the content to be indexed.

Well, I could go on explaining it to you but Dan’s article does such a terrific job I will let you go over there to read up on this disturbing subject.

>>> http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/google-proxy-hacking

Man… can people really do that kind of stuff and get away with it???

5 Comments »

well i do agree that Google consider duplicate content and result in link spam. since there is lots of issues is going on while developing links for website, duplicate content is one among it. so to over come this issue Google has software to detect these duplicate contents. you can check the duplicate content present in your website by using this tool http://www.copyscape.com/.
this will show some sites and when you enter that site it will highlight the duplicate content.

Comment by Ainsley Kac — October 18, 2007 @ 1:13 am
i hav a website which page rank was good before 2 months…suddenly it had a drastic changes in page rank ..i was confused why google penalised me……my friend said this is due to duplicate content….Is ther any way to protect contents of my site…

Comment by carribeanking — November 30, 2007 @ 12:59 am
Hi,
Its a great post.I found it is very interesting and more informative regarding Duplicate content.you have bring all good points.just before a week i have completed my webmaster course and i have a plan to create my own website to introduce something new…but i dont have proper guidance to protect contents of my site…..

Comment by carribeanking — November 30, 2007 @ 1:02 am
Hi,
I have this problem too, but how I can protect contents?
If are any service?
Becouse now my blog PR5, but I found 2 blog how copy my content

Comment by Bosxs — December 3, 2007 @ 9:59 am
Copyscape doesn’t find everything unfortunately. This is why it’s a bummer that Google hides the supplemental tag now as supplemental results were a great indicator of duplicate content issues.

Comment by Catfish SEO — January 22, 2008 @ 11:33 am