SashaPavelMisha
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- Aug 26, 2020
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this is a huge post and it's purely informational, 2yr old hacks been patched by google
If you don't know, "DMCA delisting" is different from "DNCA notice/takedown". While notice removes search results from SERPs, delisting actually removes ranking pages from Google, so the problem of results showing up in SERPs goes away on its own, so to say.
I've been dealing with delisting for the past 2-2.5 years, it took me a while back then until realizing that delisting is easily countered by setting up 301 redirect from old page to new URL page, usually on my sites it's as simple as going from website.com/URL-5 to website.com/URL-6
and so, back in 2019 until mid 2020 this process would be instant, re-indexing new URLs as soon as they appeared, which also caused google to send new URL pages to the top of the SERPs like 1st or 2nd spot, one month I've had double the traffic thanks to this little hack, which truly wasn't done for the hack, but to get back into google, yet it also brought amazing traffic sometimes for several hours, i've had up to 250k daily visitors at some point on one website
In Winter 2020 core update they have closed it off partly, then in May 2020 core update they have addressed this completely, making re-indexing take several hours, and new page wouldn't jump too high up, later they closed that off too
to be honest, i have exploited this hack, sometimes switching to new URL just to get ahead of 1 competitor that also did this, we were jumping each other sometimes 2-3 times a day. later that site got penalized but not completely, just google cut traffic by 80%
another interesting thing is happening now. thanks to being constantly delisted and moving to new URLs, whole page authority and link juice get spread over many pathways and stops reaching new URLs.. and so, i've complained about it before, one of my sites - leader on its keyword, got replaced by competitor that also DDOSed me heavily back then, but anyways, it was in the midst of 15th delisting of that site, so it was easy probably.
now in one of the niches leader got replaced by clone after another delisting, original returned on 3rd page for a day, until next delisting took down that original page once more, which actually caused google to remove the impostor clone as well, so now both of those sites are delisted..
all this is really annoying, one of my sites keep jumping 300k impressions one day, then 3k on the next day, because it was delisted or stays delisted
now, BTW, if you know delisting is coming, - can switch to new URL, so far not seeing any penalties, but if you don't know or just wait to be delisted - then it takes sometimes up to 7-10 days to be indexed again
If you don't know, "DMCA delisting" is different from "DNCA notice/takedown". While notice removes search results from SERPs, delisting actually removes ranking pages from Google, so the problem of results showing up in SERPs goes away on its own, so to say.
I've been dealing with delisting for the past 2-2.5 years, it took me a while back then until realizing that delisting is easily countered by setting up 301 redirect from old page to new URL page, usually on my sites it's as simple as going from website.com/URL-5 to website.com/URL-6
and so, back in 2019 until mid 2020 this process would be instant, re-indexing new URLs as soon as they appeared, which also caused google to send new URL pages to the top of the SERPs like 1st or 2nd spot, one month I've had double the traffic thanks to this little hack, which truly wasn't done for the hack, but to get back into google, yet it also brought amazing traffic sometimes for several hours, i've had up to 250k daily visitors at some point on one website
In Winter 2020 core update they have closed it off partly, then in May 2020 core update they have addressed this completely, making re-indexing take several hours, and new page wouldn't jump too high up, later they closed that off too
to be honest, i have exploited this hack, sometimes switching to new URL just to get ahead of 1 competitor that also did this, we were jumping each other sometimes 2-3 times a day. later that site got penalized but not completely, just google cut traffic by 80%
another interesting thing is happening now. thanks to being constantly delisted and moving to new URLs, whole page authority and link juice get spread over many pathways and stops reaching new URLs.. and so, i've complained about it before, one of my sites - leader on its keyword, got replaced by competitor that also DDOSed me heavily back then, but anyways, it was in the midst of 15th delisting of that site, so it was easy probably.
now in one of the niches leader got replaced by clone after another delisting, original returned on 3rd page for a day, until next delisting took down that original page once more, which actually caused google to remove the impostor clone as well, so now both of those sites are delisted..
all this is really annoying, one of my sites keep jumping 300k impressions one day, then 3k on the next day, because it was delisted or stays delisted
now, BTW, if you know delisting is coming, - can switch to new URL, so far not seeing any penalties, but if you don't know or just wait to be delisted - then it takes sometimes up to 7-10 days to be indexed again