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as replied up the thread... [I run osdir.com] Just to be clear we're not scraping content nor SEOing to death. We've been running our mailing list archive for
by comforteagle 16y ago
as replied up the thread...
[I run osdir.com]
Just to be clear we're not scraping content nor SEOing to death. We've been running our mailing list archive for almost 8 years.
To quote Matt_Cutts somewhere else in this thread: 'because USENET/mailing lists don't always have a centralized/canonical location on the web, which makes dupe content more of a potential issue. It's not the usual "Website X copied my website" scenario.'
If you dislike us that's cool, but just know we're not showing in your SERPs because of scraping & SEO trickery. A lot of people, maybe not you, really are finding their answer there. There's a lot of solid answers in inboxes.
- cellis 16y agoI see. I bear you no ill will. I just happened to one day start seeing LOTS of osdir and markmail results in my searches. And it's not even that I mind what osdir does (I did find answers there), but that it's UI is worse than the original site and I feel that the originals should be given higher weight.
- comforteagle 16y agoHey cellis, thanks. What I see in cases where we come up higher in SERPs is that the crawler just hasn't found the best content in google groups yet, if ever. I scratch my head over that one too, but ours is not to reason why. I don't see the index pointing to the same content in the landing pages typically either with my queries. UI: LOL, yeah, it's a toss up here whether to make it prettier or keep it a bit old school.