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I get your site #1 for that search. I suspect the scrapers are ranking above your site only when you search due to personalization (you've clicked on them in the past.) Try adding &pws=0 to your search to see if they still rank higher and I'll debug further.

This is a quite common problem actually when webmasters have reason to hate certain sites. They click on those sites in search results a lot and often see them promoted above their own, even though they're the only one who sees them promoted.

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Searching for "ipad rivals the year of the clueless" with or without &pws=0 I get 5 scraper sights before ipadinsight.com/category/ipad-rivals-2:

1. usedipadforsale.net/ipad-rivals-this-year-the-year-of-the-copycats-or-the- clueless.htm

2. www.ipads101.com/ipad-rivals-this-year-the-year-of-the-copycats-or-the- clueless/

3. ipads2nd.com/.../ipad-rivals-this-year-the-year-of-the-copycats-or-the- clueless/

4. catsmakemebats.micasaessucasagermania.com/.../ipad-rivals-this-year-the- year-of-the-copycats-or-the-clueless/

5. ipad.thedailyglobe.com/.../ipad-rivals-this-year-the-year-of-the-copycats-or- the-clueless/

6. ipadinsight.com/category/ipad-rivals-2

That looks pretty bad to me.

For that query I get ipadinsight #1 in bing. The only other result from that list that shows up is the "usedipadforsale.net" as #5.

I get ipadinsight.com in 7th position, behind 5 scrapers too (searching from the UK).

The only one of them I've clicked on before is ipads101.com, because they so flagrantly rip my content every single day. None of the others are sites I've clicked on before.

My main point here is that my site doesn't match any of the criteria for getting slapped by Panda. It's a site that has its content ripped off a ton, and every time I report the offending spam sites to Google there is no response at all.

Unfortunately panda is something I can't help with, other than passing the site along as an example of where it may not be giving good results.

Based on what I've been able to debug so far though, I'm pretty certain that those scraper sites aren't hurting your ranking, as annoying as they are. I'll keep digging though.

Also, it looks like you switched domain names recently from http://justanotheripadblog.com to http://ipadinsight.com/? Are all the pages 301-ing correctly?

Thank you, much appreciated! Is there a process for asking to have a site re-reviewed following Panda? Other than the one epically long forum thread (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=...)?

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