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		<title>Target.com games Google SERPs, and Google blinks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Posted in <a href="http://digitivity.org/category/seosem" title="SEO/SEM">SEO/SEM</a></p>Target.com is unfairly flooding Google with 15 million error pages that show up as the first result in a lot of searches for products. Google enforces its rules by playing a game of chicken with websites: If they don&#8217;t follow its rules, it won&#8217;t show them in its SERPs (search engine results pages). But with [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.goodroi.com/why-google-allows-target-com-to-spam-results/">Target.com is unfairly flooding Google</a> with 15 million error pages that show up as the first result in a lot of searches for products.</p>
<p>Google enforces its rules by playing a game of chicken with websites: If they don&#8217;t follow its rules, it won&#8217;t show them in its SERPs (search engine results pages). But with large and popular sites, the calculus is reversed: Large sites can do whatever they want, and Google indexes them regardless because if it didn&#8217;t, it wouldn&#8217;t have any results from them.</p>
<p>The result is large sites running roughshod over small ones using Google has a hammer.</p>
<p>Read more at the <a href="http://www.goodroi.com/why-google-allows-target-com-to-spam-results/">GoodROI blog</a>.</p>


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