[xenadu02]

This is not even the first or second time Google has rolled out changes that allowed SEO spam sites copying Stackoverflow or Wikipedia to rank higher than the original.

They did fix this at one point in time by figuring out which site posted the content first and penalizing the copycats, but it appears the fix is once again broken.

[reillyse]

I figure they must just be monitoring the original content and republishing it before it’s indexed by google. The searches are so specific and niche that generally ranking isn’t hard it’s beating the og that’s hard.

I just don’t know how they are managing to get indexed before the big name established sites. Perhaps they are succeeding on some small percentage and that is what we are seeing?

Perhaps they have an additional trick to make it look like they posted the content first, perhaps internal links or something.

[dtech]

I find that hard to believe, the SO questions are often years old, the GH ones months.

[reillyse]

So how are they doing it ?