Web Design & SEO Blog

We've heard rumours for some time now that in order to keep its results in check, Google uses a team of human evaluators to check the results of its automated search algorithm. The numbers of people involved are unknown but speculation suggests that there are somewhere in the region of 10,000 people worldwide who belong to this team. [Read On]

There are sites hosted in countries out there which will scrape or cache your pages using proxy servers to store copies of those pages. Having copies of your pages available to search engines means that someone is going to suffer duplicate content penalties (loss of rankings) and for some very strange reason it appears that, particularly in Google, the original content is being penalised in favour of the proxy content. [Read On]