One of my favorite sites that I read daily is Business Insider, a site which meshes together technology news with business and finance news, combining all of my favorite topics. On occasion we are fortunate to be included in Business Insider’s site, however more recently there have been a number of instances where we weren’t so grateful. On Friday we became the victim of Business Insider’s dirty SEO tactics. – Business Insider’s Dirty SEO Tactics (Social Times)
There’s not really a question about whether Business Insider’s tricks are dirty. They are. If you’re going to quote someone or borrow part of their content, you owe them the courtesy of linking directly to the article (and not quoting the entire article). Just as I’m sure BI would like others to do with their content. My question is why Google allows this sort of thing – they have to be aware of it. Are they allowing it to happen on large sites that may be big revenue generators for them?
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