Have you seen any sites test just moving the penalized content to new URLs / non-penalized folders? Or is Google "smart" enough to notice that? - ThreadSky

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robwoods.bsky.social • 89 days ago

Have you seen any sites test just moving the penalized content to new URLs / non-penalized folders? Or is Google "smart" enough to notice that?

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lilyray.nyc•89 days ago

Yes I am seeing this as well, I imagine it's just a matter of time before they get caught again but I also don't know how much the Web Spam team will be focusing on this/hunting down offenders going forward. (Without people exposing sites on X)

adamseo.bsky.social•89 days ago

Very curious to see how long it takes Google to penalise these tactics.

robwoods.bsky.social•89 days ago

I think it will be whack-a-mole for a while but SEOs used to do it with link building and just moving stuff to new domains. If I was in Google's shoes repeat offenders trying to dodge the penalties w/o changing the content would get manual actions with escalating impacts + delays in indexing.

devs.uk•89 days ago

I'd love to think G is on top of the whack-a-mole game, but its already proven, the moles they whack are readily replaced with quick to move sites.

No amount of 301 shenanigagging will ever be caught. Whether that's the manually actioned, or the PBNs that pop up.

The SRA thing is futile.

devs.uk•89 days ago

The sites I expected to get hit, haven't been (sites I consulted with). They were out-and-out, should gave been twatted.

They still live.

Which either means this current dial is still too narrow, or there is an assessment of blast impact

adamseo.bsky.social•88 days ago

Important to remember that a blog initiated the Forbes penalty too.

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