Hi All,
I like to raise a issue here at the board and seeking your view points. Now a days competition is harder, some less creative webmasters are seeking faster results and to do so few adopts strategies which they are not suppose to do so. here I am listing few and seeking your views and comments:
1. Copy the contents entirely or rewrite them without the consent of the owners.
2. Domain name squatting, they get some other TLD's or use hyphens etc. now a days plenty of TLD's exists and several domain name suggestion tools provides unlimited nos. domain variations.
3. Start selling similar services without understanding the niche, mostly outsourcing companies do so, they find a successful niche and add the same to the offerings.
4. Using other peoples RSS and create 1000's of posts using automated system. This is branded as term called "syndication" but if you see the posts their links have been placed on all main keywords.
In this case most of the time search engines fails to identify the original contents instantly. Even though the algorithm is stronger, some times innocents are receiving penalties.
I have a case where someone squatted a domain name without hyphens and sandboxed, but the damage has been done to original site too (the site with hyphens) and they lost their rankings.
I have many questions to ask, but I am seeking your views on these issues. I like to prepare a document where I will note all sorts of preventive measure a website should take before starting a new website that is visible and accessible to every one.
Thanks in advance.






Megan posted this at 15:26 — 16th August 2008.
She has: 10,288 posts
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I have a case where someone squatted a domain name without hyphens and sandboxed, but the damage has been done to original site too (the site with hyphens) and they lost their rankings.
I'm sorry, how were they able to affect your rankings on another domain? I don't quite understand what happened here.
It's true that most of this stuff is highly unethical and I'm sure Google would want to filter it out if they can. I did read yesterday that they can tell when a domain changes owners and according to Rand Fishkin they wipe the link profile.
Megan
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