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The URL address does have the meccahosting.com address, but few visitors actually look closely at the URL; they only visit the website.
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The above quote pretty much says it all.
Folks, if you own a website, and you own a domain name, that name is what people will identify with your site.....and that "url" is what the search engines identify YOUR website and YOUR content with.
What Mecca is doing, is taking YOUR content and showing YOUR content as being THEIRS. What that does is one of two things basically, 1) it tells google the content has been duplicated elsewhere, (duplicate content is a very bad thing) and 2) it attempts to give Mecca credit for YOUR work.
There is ZERO explanation that Mecca could tell us about what they are doing that would not fit in to one of those two scenarios I've breifly outline....it's either one or the other....and BOTH hurt the client.
And then, when they recieve a customer complaint
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In this particular case, this customer requested that we remove the listing, which was done by specifying that search engines were no longer allowed to view the site; unfortunately, it can be several weeks before the search engines visit again to update their listings.
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They take steps to cause as much search engine damage to the client as they can.!!??
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which was done by (Mecca) specifying that search engines were no longer allowed to view the site
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Stating they do not benefit by this practice is just a plain wrong. In my opinion (an opinion shared by many here) They directly benefit by this practice because it shows someone else's content at an url with Mecca's domain name....which is then indexed as pages located within Mecca's website although the content is someone else's.
I link to my hosting clients, but when I do, I link DIRECTLY to them, and do not redirect an url owned by me and pointed at a client that is then advertised to the search engines. (
that would be duplicate content....in fact an entire website duplicate. #1 site is the original domain and #2 site is the url owned by mecca that the search engines know about...same website, but at a different url...."DUPLICATE"
Rick
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