Comments on: Wired-Tired-Expired

By: luk

luk — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:10:15 +0000

hello
could you thank you translate your site into several language

By: Liane

Liane — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:43:13 +0000

“Somebody just copied the post wholesale”

You have just touched upon my pet peeve Matt! Its as annoying as all get out when someone takes your material “wholesale” as you put it! It happens to me all the time. The real kick in the face comes when it is a big site with lots of PR and they beat my site in the Google rankings with MY OWN MATERIAL!!!

All I can say Matt is either get used to people stealing from you or learn what is required to fill out a DMCA report which is what my friends at Google have told me to do on two separate occasions. (You were the first to tell me that at the Boston PubCon)

I have had people copy my stuff many, many times on blogspot. Have you ever tried to get the attention of anyone on that site to report this kind of theft? Good luck!

I have tried several times to wade through the stupid DMCA instructions and each time, my eyes glaze over at the bottom of page one. I just can’t stand to deal with all that legal mumbo jumbo. I wish somebody would start an online business submitting DMCA reports for webmasters who have been robbed. I’d use a service like that at least 2 to 3 dozen times a year!

I genrally try not to be glib or unfeeling, but personally, I’m glad this caught your attention and that it obviously annoyed you enough to write about it. Welcome to OUR world! Unfortunately, it is unlikely to be the last time!

By: Hanford

Hanford — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:08:26 +0000

Its from your RSS feed, Matt. That’s why a lot of people have their RSS feed only post a snippet of the full post. Personally, this is a gray area to me … RSS feeds don’t exactly come with EULAs, and afterall you *are* making the data programmatically available. So, I don’t think they really did anything wrong.

By: Jirka

Jirka — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:04:45 +0000

Thanks JohnMu for the detailed advice.

Yes I use affiliate links. Have been for a long time with no problems. My website adds plenty of unique conent (all pages are hand written not mass-java-program created) with 1,000′s of customer reviews on products I offer. The reviews concept was something I first to introduced in my niche on the net and it brings great value to 100,000′s of visitors – hence the visits. Of course, the visitor has an option to make a purchase, nothing spammy about that. No tricks. No redirects. Most visitors (when I had them) use to read the reviews and leave – MAIN point of site.

I am not a cookie-cutter affiliate site by any means, those 5 minute 10,000+ page sites ARE complete spam and should be banned.. even though they still rank above me.

My products consist of about 70% of my site, the rest 30% is unique informative content. Once again, my site is first and foremost and has been from day 1 an informative site that allows users to share opions, that is why I am in the dark these past 6 months as to why I would be under some penalty?

I would rather stay away from cloaking as it seems like a trick and I have never tricked or mislead googlebot in the past.. I don’t wish to be banned anymore than I already seem to be.

? How is a site filled with a dozen adsense ads/links? any different than a site with a dozen affiliate ads/links? hmmm

By: JohnMu

JohnMu — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:44:19 +0000

April 06, Jirka? Just a guess (hard to do more without the URL): you might have content on your site that can be automatically detected as being “not-good for the user experience”. Google will know more and if Matt doesn’t reply it might mean he knows more as well (or he’s just busy as usual). Just a shot in the dark, but perhaps your site has a high ratio of affiliate (or sold) links to total outbound links. Perhaps your site has lots of duplicated content from other sites (perhaps again: the standard affiliate product descriptions from a feed). Perhaps you have other items on your site that might be recognized as being misleading or not as valuable – by an automated system. If so, what could you do? 1) make original content, 2) get a healthy outbound link ratio, 3) switch to drop-shipping, etc, 4) cloak your “bad stuff” (officially not recommended, if recognized – and hey, we’re on Matt Cutts blog – then you might be worse off), or 5) ignore indexing / organic ranking and promote your site in different ways.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:14:15 +0000

I am surprised that you hadn’t come across ads with your name before. I often see mine turn up as an adsense add – Though I do share my real name with a fairly well known Buddhist scholar and a minor Irish writer from the mid 20th century so some of them are legit (Amazon for example) but some are just generic Ebay adds which is just annoying

Of course maybe it’s a Headhunter being sneaky

I have also had my Blog posts repeated as has my our pet project (a Blog about football boots – talk about niche marketing) – I’me not sure if it’s a bad or a good thing.

By: TxRex

TxRex — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 04:55:36 +0000

Jirka

since March 2006 did you notice that most php style pages dropped from google?

Most of the time only php that I have found in google has been on .org sites and .com seemed to disappear at that time…

very few have come back…

about 2004 php sites from osCommerce popped up all over…the link system created multiple directions to the same content…at first these sites did great…but I think google put the ax to them which isn’t a real bad thing as it forces them to clean up the link system…

please note this is just my observation and i have no direct proof…but think about all the talk on duplicate content and the conical site thing (probably miss spelled that one)…

my thought…html pages until in the shopping cart then php and have php no index no follow…

again…just my thoughts…and I am sure others have their thoughts about it so I expect there might be a few that might jump on this one to correct me…

By: Jirka

Jirka — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:24:01 +0000

Matt!

Can you tell me if I own a site http://www.domain.com and another person own a site http://www.domain.com.br if this would cause a conflict in google? I believe it might be so in my case.

I own the http://www.domain.com

Thanks for any advice!

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:28:30 +0000

Nope Steve, no hack, I did that myself. But it’s not a very useful post, so then I deleted it.

By: Jirka

Jirka — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:57:51 +0000

Harith.. seems I am one of the countless.. yes. Some have bounced back while making zero changes proving your point of the new infrastructure that is in dear struggle.

I hope you are right and I bounce back to normal But then who knows..

Anyone have experiece with my specific two scenerios I explained in detail?