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cedomir87

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I don't know if anyone's seen this and when did it start, but I just saw it today and was in shock to say the least.

I did some kw research for my website and was checking this phrase - "disadvantages of night cream".
If you take a look at the first result, it's not exactly a featured snippet, it's something much worse:

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Clicking the "Show more" button opens up an enormous list of related questions pulled from the website:

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And if you click any of the questions, you just get an accordion with the answer, no link, no attribution, no nothing:

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I'm ok with Google answering questions such as "what's the weather in LA", or a featured snippet, but pulling an entire (it's not an entire article, but it's still a large chunk of it)... I don't like where this is going.
 

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cedomir87 said:
I don't know if anyone's seen this and when did it start, but I just saw it today and was in shock to say the least.

I did some kw research for my website and was checking this phrase - "disadvantages of night cream".
If you take a look at the first result, it's not exactly a featured snippet, it's something much worse:

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Clicking the "Show more" button opens up an enormous list of related questions pulled from the website:

View attachment 126443

And if you click any of the questions, you just get an accordion with the answer, no link, no attribution, no nothing:

View attachment 126444

I'm ok with Google answering questions such as "what's the weather in LA", or a featured snippet, but pulling an entire (it's not an entire article, but it's still a large chunk of it)... I don't like where this is going.
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I think Google should slap itself with a duplicate content penalty and get deindexed. But joking aside, there was already this talk on the forum, as some big names in the business are already suing Google for stealing content. If someone has the link, please share, I know I read it here, but don't know where..
 
SunnyLeon said:
I think Google should slap itself with a duplicate content penalty and get deindexed. But joking aside, there was already this talk on the forum, as some big names in the business are already suing Google for stealing content. If someone has the link, please share, I know I read it here, but don't know where..
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https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/wtf-is-wrong-with-google.1187907/

This thread I guess ? I did some research a few weeks back and there was a few threads, this subject is starting to make a lot of people nervous and for good reason...
 
If you don't want Google to use your content, you can tell it not to index your page. But then it won't send you traffic. The cost of doing business through Google is to have it use your content.
 
cedomir87 said:
I don't know if anyone's seen this and when did it start, but I just saw it today and was in shock to say the least.

I did some kw research for my website and was checking this phrase - "disadvantages of night cream".
If you take a look at the first result, it's not exactly a featured snippet, it's something much worse:

View attachment 126442

Clicking the "Show more" button opens up an enormous list of related questions pulled from the website:

View attachment 126443

And if you click any of the questions, you just get an accordion with the answer, no link, no attribution, no nothing:

View attachment 126444

I'm ok with Google answering questions such as "what's the weather in LA", or a featured snippet, but pulling an entire (it's not an entire article, but it's still a large chunk of it)... I don't like where this is going.
Click to expand...


Unfortunately no turning back. Google will take over more and more and it will be small things like these that only select few will start to notice. To the masses everything will be business as usual.
 
Google will be able at some point to rewrite content based on others content. Content automation at its finest. All we niche creators will be out of the game by the great creator of misfortune

There is even a patent that purposes exactly this. I posted some months ago in the Jr VIP section. I will check for it tomorrow if I remember it.
 
Google wants to keep users on its site, that's how they make money.
 
BigBoogie said:
Looks like faq schema. Some site owners are happy to use it because it pushes others out of above the fold results.
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I received an email yesterday from Neil Patel and he shows in it how he used this approach to claim the 'number one spot' for the phrase 'digital marketing' . He was using the faq schema to highlight questions in his content and then supply answers
 
it's been around fro a while, you can use https://saijogeorge.com/json-ld-schema-generator/faq/ to generate the code required. But from the sounds of it, you want to stay away from doing that.
 
Seems like that the FAQ schema increases your chances to rank up on Google, will surely implement that on my website.
 
actually I just got Google DMCA email tell me remove one content
I does admit I copy few contents from that site but i got stated written by who
etc links back

funny is they send me just one url , which i also have others copy but got put owner credits etc

nevertheless I just remove it.
 
cedomir87 said:
I don't know if anyone's seen this and when did it start, but I just saw it today and was in shock to say the least.

I did some kw research for my website and was checking this phrase - "disadvantages of night cream".
If you take a look at the first result, it's not exactly a featured snippet, it's something much worse:

View attachment 126442

Clicking the "Show more" button opens up an enormous list of related questions pulled from the website:

View attachment 126443

And if you click any of the questions, you just get an accordion with the answer, no link, no attribution, no nothing:

View attachment 126444

I'm ok with Google answering questions such as "what's the weather in LA", or a featured snippet, but pulling an entire (it's not an entire article, but it's still a large chunk of it)... I don't like where this is going.
Click to expand...
This is very sad, but unfortunately we ourselves agree to this.
 
This is really scary. They are making the best of other people hard work.
 
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