Most of the Google posting right now is on dedicated threads focused on specific changes

March 1, 2011 - PRLog -- Google's perpetual update machine keeps on turning. I'm particularly wondering about sites that publish a lot of legitimately syndicated content rather than a lot of original content. Did your rankings and traffic wobble with the "dupe content update"? If they dropped, did they rebound?

I'm watching one such website and though they are mostly republished content, nothing seemed to change.

http://www.batteryfast.com/sony/vgp-bps2a.htm      sony vgp-bps2a battery

It is however worth noting that some sites that we have been tracking over the past few months outranked us. These sites came to our attention for scraping our content and duplicating our titles. We contacted the owners and got to know a little more about their operation. All were from India with writers (non-medical writers) rewriting our content. We could verify this because our doctors were putting in some unique content that was based on their years of clinical experience. This too was "stolen".

Today, these sites are ranking higher than us with their scraped content, "stolen" pictures and Youtube videos within the content. None of the media is original.

A theme I'm seeing here based on what members have been posting is; scraped and blackhat content is in many instances gaining in SERP. Work from there and go backward. Obviously Google knows that is the stuff that they want to suppress. And if so, why would it be rising rather than falling?

http://www.batteryfast.com/sony/vgp-bps2b.htm      sony vgp-bps2b battery

For those who are in a panic have you considered that a major algorithm change of nature cannot sort itself out in days, weeks maybe in some instances, but more likely months.

I'm sure google does in-lab quality control testing of these types of program changes before releasing them in the wild. But, regardless of how thoroughly they may test it -- the acid test is in the wild.

I have no doubt MC and company are following this thread to gauge reactions as they are being observed and reported throughout this hysterical thread. I have a feeling they have developed a reasonably good (short term) patch to address the stuff they are trying to tackle. In order for them to know for sure if they have nailed something reasonably well they would hope to single out those sites. What better way to get feedback (cost-free) than allow those sites to float to the top and then put an ear to the ground here in webmaster world. That would help them analyze their changes for accuracy and effectiveness. If the consensus is worldwide webmasters having a panic attack then they're probably sitting around their cubicles chuckling (I would be).

http://www.batteryfast.com/sony/vgp-bps2c.htm      Sony vgp-bps2c Battery

Once they know that they have built an effective pattern parsing patch they will then probably flip another switch to then corral those sites and push them down in SERP's because they then know they have probably effectively identified them.

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