Hello,
i am running an editorial website with 5 subeditors for years now. But during the past months, i recognized a lot of "competitors" in the same field, who spam the SERPS with really bad content - and so our website visitors went down for like 50%.
Regarding the other competing websites, its not spam in the way of duplicated content, cloaking a.s.o. it ist more in a way of using wordpress or blogger to publish a dozen of short posts a day with bad written content and sentences without real meaning or value.
The problem is that those sites rank pretty well in Google and despite the fact they are pretty "new" (aged only a couple of months, PR 0 or n/a), some of them went into Google News.
You could now say - wait, they willl go in the sandbox anyway - but as far as we obseved this phenomen for about a half year, most of them didn`t and probably wont go into the Sandbox or get penalized by Google.
Therfore, I would like to ask you how it is possible to harm those kind of new sites in the meaning of decreasing their traffic, e.g. thinking about submitting their sites to RSS-reader directories or meta-sites like Wikio (which duplicates their content and they get penaliezed sometimes, we saw that one), fill in a google spam report or try to inform Google News about the quality of these content a.s.o.
So if somebody could give advise in this case, i would be very glad to hear. Any tip is appreciated.
David
i am running an editorial website with 5 subeditors for years now. But during the past months, i recognized a lot of "competitors" in the same field, who spam the SERPS with really bad content - and so our website visitors went down for like 50%.
Regarding the other competing websites, its not spam in the way of duplicated content, cloaking a.s.o. it ist more in a way of using wordpress or blogger to publish a dozen of short posts a day with bad written content and sentences without real meaning or value.
The problem is that those sites rank pretty well in Google and despite the fact they are pretty "new" (aged only a couple of months, PR 0 or n/a), some of them went into Google News.
You could now say - wait, they willl go in the sandbox anyway - but as far as we obseved this phenomen for about a half year, most of them didn`t and probably wont go into the Sandbox or get penalized by Google.
Therfore, I would like to ask you how it is possible to harm those kind of new sites in the meaning of decreasing their traffic, e.g. thinking about submitting their sites to RSS-reader directories or meta-sites like Wikio (which duplicates their content and they get penaliezed sometimes, we saw that one), fill in a google spam report or try to inform Google News about the quality of these content a.s.o.
So if somebody could give advise in this case, i would be very glad to hear. Any tip is appreciated.
David
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