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> I do believe it would be possible to create a very large dataset of these copycat sites Would they just move to creating and using new domains with the same
by helsinkiandrew 4y ago
> I do believe it would be possible to create a very large dataset of these copycat sites
Would they just move to creating and using new domains with the same content as soon as traffic to the old becomes drops? (What looks like the spammers in the original post are doing)
But something does need to be done to these sites.
- fragmede 4y agoFingerprint the site’s content so the new domain name isn’t able to SEO a good score.
- gary_0 4y ago> move to creating and using new domains This is a decades-old spammer trick. Google used to not rank brand new domains very high for this reason. It's hard not to think that the only reason Google abandoned most of its old site ranking heuristics was that they were filtering out too many sites with lots of Google ads. The spam sites now infesting Google's first-page results don't look very different from the spam sites I saw back in the early 2000's. (There's more JavaScript, but modern search spiders run every page in a VM before reading the DOM, so that doesn't fool anyone.)