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siphoning

In SEO,  siphoning is a technique used to "steal" traffic that would normally be directed to another website in search engine results.  Siphoning could be the fraudulent use of spyware or cybersquatting to steal the traffic, or it could refer to those who copy a webpage with the content slightly altered to direct the Web search engine to show results of another webpage.



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