@Stupid 132006 wrote:
That page was last updated on August 1st 2006, and originally written on November 17th 2004. This is a looooong time ago. Our websites get hijacked litteraly on hourly basis and by methods not even described in the article.
I would personally check to see if I have not bought run of site text links and/or added a lot of content in a short time.
Actually I think you are wrong on two accounts here. G+C has been around long enough that they could get mass links and or content and it would help them not hurt them. Your reasoning would be great for a new site though.
I’m not saying the ranks dropped because of the scrapers but I know it couldn’t be what you said.