Sending autmated queries to Google hurting SEO?
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Anyone have any ideas whether there could be a chance that a site might get penalized if it is sending automated queries to Google (ie, to check rankings)?
I was reading the recently updated Google Webmaster Guidelines and saw on the section - "Quality guidelines - specific guidelines" that mentioned about sending automated queries to Google...
Just wondering what are the chances that Google will actually penalize a site that sends automated queries (if they are able to identify which site is doing so in the first place)..
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Don't think automated queries could really affect a site, at least not queries that are checking rankings. Like people have said if that was the case we could tank any competitor website by just spamming ranking queries to Google and getting them penalised.
If maybe there is something in the coding that is pinging Google constantly for other reasons it might have an effect, but I don't really see how that could come about.
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Almost all the time your website is a different entity and your computer IP for which you are sending automated rank checking request is something different...
I don’t see any point where Google will penalize or discount your website in SERP results because of sending automated request to Google... i don’t see any relation in between two...
It is advisable not to send automated request to Google but affecting ranking through this makes no sense to me...
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hmm.. I thought so too..
Just wondering why is it that Google actually bothers to mention this in their Quality Guidelines when it seems like there isn't anything that they will/can do about it..
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_I do not think this will invite a penalty for a website because if this has been the case, we could have tanked a website easily by running rank checker for those websites. _
_This just goes against the guidelines of Google .. check for more information - _
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66357
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