Make Money Without Doing Evil - A Lesson in Content Scraping - Google's Algorithm Solution
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After making these changes to the algorithim, there were a few websites that were mistakenly dropped from Googles index. In many forums, there were some very angry webmasters whose sites were dropped inadvertently. Many thought Google was out to destroy their website before being able to ascertain the real reason they were dropped.
Google dropping websites from their index is nothing new, as has been noted several times in the past, It is apt to occur in the future as the reasons for such occurances are many. The great thing about new technology is the unknown, and some can be prevented and others cannot. That is the nature of the search engines, and like most things in life, it is a dual edged sword. When a webmaster has spent years of their life working on a website that is a passion and extension of themselves, it is a shock (to say the least) when it goes from drawing nice traffic through Googles free results index to being suddenly dropped from the index.
It is understandable that they would look to the forums to find help, but they must also understand that some of the advice in the forums can be hard to decipher as to what is speculation and what is fact-based advice. Being able to pull out the information needed to make the needed changes takes a very sharp mind.
The best thing to do when your website has been stricken or dropped from Google's
index is to read the information at this URL: Google Advice. After reading this information and making any needed changes, get the attention of Google as soon as possible to resolve your situation: right here.
If you did use any of the content scraping software and want to be reincluded in Google's index, you will need to rewrite the content and then write to Google telling them that you had made a mistake and that you will not do so again and will abide their guidelines.
You should receive a letter from Google if the site has been cleaned up stating that the problem has been brought to their engineers' attention. From there, it can takes as little as two weeks to as much as two to three months that I have personally seen.
Remember, as Google says, you can make money without doing evil.
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