Rankings Check and Googles Quality Guidelines
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Hi,
I am trialing SEOmoz at present.
What i dont understand is how come the rankings check, which presumably involves sending requests to Google, doesnt contravine the Google quality guidelines and cause a website to be penalised.
Sorry if being a bit dim - but if anybody could explain it would be really helpful
cheers
stayin
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Hi Stayin,
Check out Rand's response at http://www.seomoz.org/q/seomoz-rocks-but-is-it-breaking-google-s-webmaster-guidelines-when-it-comes-to-check-rankings to a similar question.
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I'm sure they have something worked out for their sake, but I'm not sure how it would penalize the website being checked if it is being scraped. Send a bunch of keywords to google and scrape their serps, they have no idea what site you are actually looking for.
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