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Re: Think you're affected by the recent algorithm change? Post here.


worriedsick Mar 2, 2011 10:32 PM
Posted in group: Webmaster Central

Categories: Crawling, indexing & ranking :

Hello Wysz,

First thank you for taking the time to collect the examples for the engineers.

Once the recent algorithm, Daemon's TV (http://www.daemonstv.com/), a six year old TV site, has suffered a very significant loss of rankings which in turn caused an equally important loss of traffic (30-40%).

The worst part is having scraper sites rank for the orignal content that we write above us. In some cases, we don't even rank at all but scraper sites rank for our content.

For example, we wrote a review for the latest episode of the CBS show "The Good Wife".  

http://www.daemonstv.com/2011/03/02/the-good-wife-great-firewall-review/

We are ranking for this review on page 3 for the keyowrd:

"THE GOOD WIFE "Great Firewall" Review"

http://www.google.com/search?q=THE+GOOD+WIFE+%22Great+Firewall%22+Review&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=THE+GOOD+WIFE+%22Great+Firewall%22+Review&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsu&ei=VDVvTdWVEpK8sAO9oMTWCw&start=20&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.&fp=4f946123dd261080


But there is a site that scraped our feed that is ranking for the same keyword on page 1

http://earlytopnews.com/entertainment/the-good-wife-%E2%80%9Cgreat-firewall%E2%80%9D-review.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=THE+GOOD+WIFE+%22Great+Firewall%22+Review&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=THE+GOOD+WIFE+%22Great+Firewall%22+Review&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Me2&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsu&ei=1TFvTeWAOYb2tgOxptnSCw&start=0&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.&fp=4f946123dd261080

This is just one of many examples.

I don't claim to have a perfect site but it is not fair that we do not rank for our own content but other websites that steal our content do.

Hopefully, this example will help the Google Team in their inquiries.

Thanks - Eric Daemon's TV (http://www.daemonstv.com/)