Some of you may get your answer to your serps issues in this recent change. Check out this blog post and blog comments on Matt Cutt's Blog.
Also MJ has created a post in the SEO Tip of the day about this recent news. You may read that post at this http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum...very-day-v7ns-seo-tip-day-17.html#post1587286
Any thoughts on this? Don't forget to read the blog comments. I read about 3 of them so far but going to read more later tonight. I was reading about this on web pro, there was a quote that something like only 2% of SERPs were going to be applicable to the updates.. Seems like that info would be something that would be very internal though.
It will be very interesting to see what changes! 2% is not a lot but a lot of people do use google. I am sure in the next few days or week's we will be hearing more about the effects of this change. For now, this is the hottest topic for Friday from the looks of it. Other blogs i am subscribed to have posts on this change. I'm with the comment "How can Google decide what’s the original and how is the scrapped content?".
Sorry i haven't read past this comment due to lack of sleep.
Surely Google can't use the date that it's bot first indexed the content be the deciding factor. IF we do comments then google bot may catch the spamming in comments too. their algorithm should be selective otherwise if one has a site that's an affiliate with Amazon, eBay, etc, then is it good-bye affiliate sites? this is good in order to lessen spamming sites and blogs and return the most content wise website on every result. Here is some related news that was a very interesting read.
Quote: Last week, Google's Matt Cutts put up a blog post talking about a shift in focus to content farms, which he defines as "sites with shallow or low-quality content". Most people that read this assumed he was talking about sites like some of those offered by Demand Media (eHow.com, for example), which launched an IPO this week valuing the company at $1.5 billion.
It's not that people thought Cutts was talking only about Demand Media, but most of the time when an article is written about "content farms", Demand Media is cited, as it has basically become the poster child for the phrase.
Cutts then announced that Google has implemented an algorithm change, but things are still rather murky with regards to whether or not this one embodies a change geared at content farms and/or sites like those from Demand Media. Cutts refers to "one thing" he mentioned in the original post that the new change is geared towards, but does not mention content farms themselves. More on this here.
Peter Kafka at AllThingsD had a conversation with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt who maintains that a. Demand Media is not a "content farm" and b. Matt Cutts was not talking about Demand Media in the post.
Rosenblatt is quoted as saying, Continued at; http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2011/01/27/demand-media-ceo-google-not-talking-about-us
FYI, demand media was mentioned in the blog comments in the blog post matt cutts did that i linked us to.
Also MJ has created a post in the SEO Tip of the day about this recent news. You may read that post at this http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum...very-day-v7ns-seo-tip-day-17.html#post1587286
Any thoughts on this? Don't forget to read the blog comments. I read about 3 of them so far but going to read more later tonight. I was reading about this on web pro, there was a quote that something like only 2% of SERPs were going to be applicable to the updates.. Seems like that info would be something that would be very internal though.
It will be very interesting to see what changes! 2% is not a lot but a lot of people do use google. I am sure in the next few days or week's we will be hearing more about the effects of this change. For now, this is the hottest topic for Friday from the looks of it. Other blogs i am subscribed to have posts on this change. I'm with the comment "How can Google decide what’s the original and how is the scrapped content?".
Sorry i haven't read past this comment due to lack of sleep.
Surely Google can't use the date that it's bot first indexed the content be the deciding factor. IF we do comments then google bot may catch the spamming in comments too. their algorithm should be selective otherwise if one has a site that's an affiliate with Amazon, eBay, etc, then is it good-bye affiliate sites? this is good in order to lessen spamming sites and blogs and return the most content wise website on every result. Here is some related news that was a very interesting read.
Quote: Last week, Google's Matt Cutts put up a blog post talking about a shift in focus to content farms, which he defines as "sites with shallow or low-quality content". Most people that read this assumed he was talking about sites like some of those offered by Demand Media (eHow.com, for example), which launched an IPO this week valuing the company at $1.5 billion.
It's not that people thought Cutts was talking only about Demand Media, but most of the time when an article is written about "content farms", Demand Media is cited, as it has basically become the poster child for the phrase.
Cutts then announced that Google has implemented an algorithm change, but things are still rather murky with regards to whether or not this one embodies a change geared at content farms and/or sites like those from Demand Media. Cutts refers to "one thing" he mentioned in the original post that the new change is geared towards, but does not mention content farms themselves. More on this here.
Peter Kafka at AllThingsD had a conversation with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt who maintains that a. Demand Media is not a "content farm" and b. Matt Cutts was not talking about Demand Media in the post.
Rosenblatt is quoted as saying, Continued at; http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2011/01/27/demand-media-ceo-google-not-talking-about-us
FYI, demand media was mentioned in the blog comments in the blog post matt cutts did that i linked us to.