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Re:Google is Breaking the Internet by ForHackernews on Sunday May 18, 2014 @04:59PM (#7764403)
Sure, this is all hearsay and second- and third-hand information, and the article is really sparse on details.

> It's quite likely they noticed a penalty...

Yes, and where would they have noticed that penalty?

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Re:Google is Breaking the Internet by jonknee on Sunday May 18, 2014 @05:06PM (#7764425)
> Yes, and where would they have noticed that penalty?

In a drop in incoming traffic, so with whatever they're using for analytics.

In all honesty it's probably just a new SEO consultant trying to clean up past sins and move on with whatever the latest grey hat strategy is.

IMO it's a gross overreaction to a form letter that a high percentage of webmasters have received.

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