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He does indicate it- > With the text of my homepage replicated across hundreds of such modified pages, it has essentially disappeared from Google for key searc
by tedivm 7y ago
He does indicate it-
> With the text of my homepage replicated across hundreds of such modified pages, it has essentially disappeared from Google for key search terms for the site, such as "polygraph."
- arn 7y agook. then right, it's the vaguer question of whether his site deserves to rank higher than it does for a particular term. on brief glance, it doesn't look like he optimizes for "polygraph". He does rank #1 for antipolygraph.
- CodeWriter23 7y agoI do not consider the question of whether actual authoritative content should outrank hacked pages with duplicate content to be ”vague”.
- arn 7y agobut that's not the issue here. There is no example where duplicate content is outranking his. In the quoted query, he ranks higher. Beyond that he says he doesn't rank well for "polygraph", but not that it's outranked by the spammy content.
- tedivm 7y agoThe timing is also interesting, as Google has recently updated their search engine results to be more "context aware", which may result in sites like that dropping in the rankings since their subject matter is actually a bit different than what people searching for "polygraph" might expect.