SES Session Links and Google Proxy Hacking Revealed
Day one of the Search Engine Strategies conference is over, and thanks to turbo-speed live bloggers like Barry Schwartz and the rest of the Search Engine Roundtable crew, you can get a pretty good idea of what went on the first day of the conference in and out of the sessions.
Barry has put together a pretty good round-up of SES posts which include summaries of the sessions. You can see them all here.
Also, and affiliate of ours pointed us to an August 16th article from Dan Theis called Proxy Hacking: How a Third Party Can Remove Your Site From Google SERPs. The article, timed very nicely to coincide with the SES San Jose conference, points out a major flaw in the way Google is indexing sites through proxy servers.
It seems that Dan and other SEO experts have been trying to get Google to fix this issue for over a year now, but to no avail, so Dan decided to take the issue public. I’m guessing this will be a hot topic during the conference…especially in sessions that feature Google engineers.
If you’re interested in learning about how some black hat SEO are using this hack to take out their competitors, I’d suggest giving it a read.
Just don’t use the hack against us, capiche?
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I did a search for a unique phrase, and did not find the problem Mr. Theiss outlined, but I saw something else.
My site did come up SECOND, and the first site was obviously a MFA scraper site that took a few lines from my site. This site did, politely enough, include a link back to my site.
It's funny though because the Google toolbar shows my page as a PR3, and that one as a PR0, but they still came up first on a search in quotes for "my unique phrase".
Oh well, I guess that illustrates (one more time) what use the Google toolbar is. It also shows that content can get scraped by IMHO a much crummier site - and they still win. Argh.
Posted by: QuoteUS | August 21, 2007 08:28 PM