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

Music_mag Mar 3, 2011 1:20 AM
Posted in group: Webmaster Central

Categories: Crawling, indexing & ranking :

I posted this elsewhere but thought should put it here too:

Checking my rankings for www.themusicmagazine.co.uk I was quite shocked. Lots of scrapers are ranking above me for my own content. Even when this isn't happening my own site has pretty much disappeared.

Check out this piece of content which was very popular with users: http://www.themusicmagazine.co.uk/aiden-grimshaw-fans-get-organised-on-twitter-27832. It got lots of tweets, good comments and is all our own original work.

Now look at this search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1229&bih=491&q=aiden+grimshaw+twitter+fans+organised

Two scrapers with my content there. I'm nowehere :-(

Hope Google can refine it quickly. Really like what they've done in general here and inevitably some of us will see a loss. However, in this case the people this update was meant to target are doing even better.