Comments on: Norwegian Technology Journalist Exposes an SEO Scam

By: Sholto

Sholto — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:40:00 +0000

What an interesting article. I shall translate it into sansrit which has a large community of people interested in these subjects. Then please link to my translation. This will benefit everybody (but most especially my pharma clients)

By: Terry Van Horne

Terry Van Horne — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:18:00 +0000

ummm clearly no guideline were broken because that is no different then outreach to bloggers. Though a BS tactic from an outreach standpoint and not something I’d recommend IMO, it doesn’t break Google TOS or quality guuidelines since it passes the biggest test that being adds benefit to users, that a translation makes available content to a new audience is a benefit in and of itself. It isn’t really duplicate content because it is in another index assuming the translations are hosted in the country they were translated for so again wondering if the people saying this is bad really … understand the guidelines… or know what dupicate content is and isn’t

By: Mia Johnson

Mia Johnson — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:28:00 +0000

They don’t. I once translated a paper from English to Spanish, and viceversa…it didn’t recognize it as duplicate content. Not even after I’ve corrected it and made it readable.

P.S.
An excellent article, Dan. Very well written. I understod it ( it doesn’t come often with articles from IT people)

By: Anders Hofseth

Anders Hofseth — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:53:00 +0000

There were some subtle changes in wording in the ‘translation’, so that it looked different from my A/B test with google translate. Might be sufficient to cheat an automatic check as well…
- anders

By: Dejan SEO

Dejan SEO — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:31:00 +0000

Yeah I lean towards that definition too.

By: Dejan SEO

Dejan SEO — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:30:00 +0000

Hmmm… I wonder if Google has a catch for Google Translate material. My guess is they do not.

By: Mikael Rieck

Mikael Rieck — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:30:00 +0000

If the articles were merely translated using Google Translate, isn’t there a potential duplicate content issue since Google will obviously know that it is the same thing? (just in different languages)?

/Mikael

By: David Iwanow

David Iwanow — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:16:00 +0000

hmmm not so much a scam more highly unethical…