Surely Google doesn’t think Mashable is a content farm?
March 14, 2011
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To look up a Mashable.com story I'd read on my mobile phone, I typed the headline into Google. My first thought was that a lot of people scrape their content. And my second was where the hell is the original story?
Logged into my Google account, I don't see Mashable anywhere on the first page for a search on "42 new digital media resources".
Using a different browser and logged out, I see it second as this screenshot shows.
Mashable outranked for its own content
And when I switched to a 3rd browser, still not logged in, Mashable vanishes again.
Where Mashable?
Several people on Twitter confirmed this. Seems like Google's anti-content-farm algorithm needs some tweaks ...
[...] Surely Google doesn’t think Mashable is a content farm?, Malcolm Coles [...]
It may be a screw up in their latest algo update. Time magazine got hit, too:
http://seoroi.com/seo-roi-quality/why-is-google-promoting-scrapers-over-time-mag/