Google’s John Mueller said in a webmaster hangout video that Google’s spam teams take it super serious when a web site is taken over by another one in the search results. If you see that happen, Google wants to jump on those issues and tackle them quickly.

John said at the 58:24 mark into the video that you can even email or direct message him on Twitter if you see this happening. He said “When when we do get alerted of issues like that, where some other website takes over essentially the the search rankings for for existing websites. And that’s something that the team takes very seriously.”

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I’ve only seen this with site hacks but I guess it can happen other ways as well?

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