Competitor with over 100,000 links to duplicate copy ranks well, anyone know why?
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One of our competitors has over 100,000 links on Yahoo site explorer, most of them are from pages on their site with duplicate content and they don't seem to have a focus on gaining backlinks, but the site still ranks really well. Can anyone think of a reason why this duplicate content hasn't been penalised by Google?
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If you provide the URL and keywords involved, we can provide more specific answers rather then guessing
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Reflecting back to some of the sites that I've done SEO for, the reason is the following:
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Your competitor's URL must be few year old
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Had or still have good original content on the site, regardless of duplication
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Look at the source code of the domain in question, you are most likley to find the site had old style coding (strange but true).
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