One Company Runs Scaled Content Abuse on .com While Doing Clean SEO on Its Other Domains
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-22
SEO observer Gagan Ghotra flags a wild case: a company's .com domain targeting the US market is running aggressive scaled content abuse — the exact practice Google penalizes — while the same company does legitimate SEO and content marketing on its other (.in and .com.au) properties.
The two-track approach reads as a hedge: harvest traffic from the abusive domain before penalties land, while keeping the compliant assets clean.
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