Have you seen many big decreases?

I would hope that the Disavow file is used for signals about the untrustworthiness of the site. I chuck in a lot more domains that proxy or scrape/rewrite our content these days.

[I use 0-9, A-Z for our file for my achey human eyes to see what's what. Currently 870+ domains in our disavow]

Bug Hunters didn't perceive it as a suitable issue.

Fortunately our Ad Partner Publisher Collective has a Google contact who have raised it on our behalf.

Canonical hijacks continue.

I bumped into a friend who works on (rival) PC Gamer and told him what to look out for. We want to win clean :)

If you spot the Spitfire on the run down into Salisbury...

www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk/salisbury-bl...

We've done some digging and pasted our findings below. It has implications for how Google is reassigning publishers canonicals to scraper sites/malware sites, and taking out our traffic and ranking.

support.google.com/webmasters/t...

Googlebot gets served the scraped article. 'real world' people visiting the scraped article are sent to a malware site/single page with an expletive on.

The issue is with Google picking a hacked domain and giving that authority *over* the source domain.

We've logged it with bughunters.google.com

Looks like it started at the beginning of June for us. Multiple sites of ours affected, a handful of URLs. The 'fake' canonicals are various domains.

Chrome sees a different page than Google Sheets when previewing the bad URLs so some user agent specific stuff we think to fool Google we think.

I see this remains an issue . this from 2 years ago www.reddit.com/r/TechSEO/co...

The hand that feeds it is certainly concerned how far above the elbow Google AI Overviews is currently gnawing.