Google and Bing are both having a bad month right now. lol
Check out this blog post by Jill Whalen on the sitepronews blog. Please read it before posting your
Quote: While many bloggers and the media are calling Google’s search results out lately, most of the focus has been on the somewhat low-quality pages that show up for informational long-tail searches. My concern for Google’s search results is different, however. As I touched upon in the last newsletter, I’m tired of Google (and Bing) returning sites that use anchor text link spam to get on the first page of results.
For those who don’t know what anchor text is, here’s a quick explanation:
Anchor text is the words in the clickable part of any link. For instance, when someone links to my site, they typically use either my name or my company name in the anchor text, which looks like this:
Lot more to read at: http://www.sitepronews.com/2011/02/06/google-and-bing-love-anchor-text-link-spam/
What are your thoughts? Backup your response please. Just like Jill i'm thinking if Bing get's there act together fast, they could do better then google in the search engine world. Remember they did a ton of advertising on t.v. when Bing first launched (relaunch of MSN with new name) and should have some money to win this war with Google. Hire some new programers to recode the search engine code stuff. Eh, just make the results better and not have useless sites on page 1. Anyways, share any thoughts that you have about what Jim has talked about. How interesting, all the queries I search with Google have always gave me a satisfying end results, so it might be just me, but I rarely see this as an opportunity for Bing to "change the tides" for a lack of a better term.
I am barely noticing this influx of spam. Interesting article. The author kept asking why Google and Bing allow contextual link spamming and here is my response:
How the heck else are search engines going to systematically categorize billions of web pages other than contextual links. Links are they only thing they have left.
When on-page optimization ruled, meta tags and keyword stuffing ruled so the search algorithm changed and put more weight on off-page factors which were harder to manipulate.
Now, enough time has passed where the spammers have caught up with the algorithm and are successfully spamming it again.
The question is not "Why are Google and Bing LETTING this happen?"
The question is "What other possible metric can they possibly conceive that could even come close to replacing backlink structure as a ranking factor?"
Truth be told, I think that Google is grabbing at the air furiously trying to find something. Hopefully they will find it so that their search results will once again stabilize, therefore stabilizing the search results that Bing copies from them.
Check out this blog post by Jill Whalen on the sitepronews blog. Please read it before posting your
Quote: While many bloggers and the media are calling Google’s search results out lately, most of the focus has been on the somewhat low-quality pages that show up for informational long-tail searches. My concern for Google’s search results is different, however. As I touched upon in the last newsletter, I’m tired of Google (and Bing) returning sites that use anchor text link spam to get on the first page of results.
For those who don’t know what anchor text is, here’s a quick explanation:
Anchor text is the words in the clickable part of any link. For instance, when someone links to my site, they typically use either my name or my company name in the anchor text, which looks like this:
Lot more to read at: http://www.sitepronews.com/2011/02/06/google-and-bing-love-anchor-text-link-spam/
What are your thoughts? Backup your response please. Just like Jill i'm thinking if Bing get's there act together fast, they could do better then google in the search engine world. Remember they did a ton of advertising on t.v. when Bing first launched (relaunch of MSN with new name) and should have some money to win this war with Google. Hire some new programers to recode the search engine code stuff. Eh, just make the results better and not have useless sites on page 1. Anyways, share any thoughts that you have about what Jim has talked about. How interesting, all the queries I search with Google have always gave me a satisfying end results, so it might be just me, but I rarely see this as an opportunity for Bing to "change the tides" for a lack of a better term.
I am barely noticing this influx of spam. Interesting article. The author kept asking why Google and Bing allow contextual link spamming and here is my response:
How the heck else are search engines going to systematically categorize billions of web pages other than contextual links. Links are they only thing they have left.
When on-page optimization ruled, meta tags and keyword stuffing ruled so the search algorithm changed and put more weight on off-page factors which were harder to manipulate.
Now, enough time has passed where the spammers have caught up with the algorithm and are successfully spamming it again.
The question is not "Why are Google and Bing LETTING this happen?"
The question is "What other possible metric can they possibly conceive that could even come close to replacing backlink structure as a ranking factor?"
Truth be told, I think that Google is grabbing at the air furiously trying to find something. Hopefully they will find it so that their search results will once again stabilize, therefore stabilizing the search results that Bing copies from them.